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INTRODUCTORY 

T IS the hope of the one who 
has compiled the matter 
which fills this book that the 
-'^Tl^*' perusal of its pages may con- 

1 tinue and deepen the impression 

of the Decennial Reunion upon those who were so 
fortunate as to be present, and kindle the same enthu- 
siasm in those who were kept away from that happy 
gathering. The records, which are now before you, 
confirm what was evident on every hand at the Reunion, 
that the Class is doing honest, successful, earnest work 
— work of which it need not be ashamed. It will be seen 
that several of its members are rising into the notice of 
the world by reason of their marked abilities. The Class 
has grown marvellously in power during the last five 
years, and, at the Reunion, there was a mutual respect 
for work well done, both hearty and sincere. 

The Secretary wishes he had the opportunity to 
analyze the record in detail, but the mass of material that 
was voted a place in the book has enlarged it so greatly 
that he is left only the opportunity to thank the many 
who aided him in its preparation, and to extend the greet- 
ings of the Class to everyone who was ever a member of it. 

Edward S. Parsons, 
August, 1893. Secretary, 



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Total of Class, . 








91 




35 




126 




Business, 








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31 


10 


31 


38 


30 


Teaching, 








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6 


17 


23 


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Law, .... 








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Theology, . . 








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Medicine, 








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14 


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Journalism, . 








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6 


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3 


8 


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Married, . . . 








56 


61 


30 


96 


86 


67 


Wives not living, 








2 


3 








2 


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Children, living, . 








61 


94 


29 


91 


90 


93 


dead, 








4 


6 


3 


9 


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65 




32 




97 




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32 


36 


7 


22 


39 


35 


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40 


10 


31 


45 


38 


New York, . 








20 


23 


6 


19 


26 


22 


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70 


80 


22 


68 


92 


77 


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18 


4 


12 


20 


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86 


98 


26 


80 


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94 


Foreign Countries, 


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CLASS RECO 



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EVERETT A. ABORN, 

The son of Lucius A. and Caroline C. Aborn, was 
born December 31, 1859, at Ellington, Conn. He was 
fitted for college at the Monson (Mass.) Academy. 
During the years 1883-4 he taught in the Shattuck Military 
School, Faribault, Minn. During 1884-5 he was one of 
the instructors in Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, 
Ills. At the close of the year he became a student in the 
Union College of Law, Chicago, 111., being at the same 
time in the law office of E. F. Runyan, Esq., of Chicago. 
He received the degree of LL.B. from the above named 
institution in June, 1887. After a short trip east, he 
returned to Chicago and opened an office for the practice 

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6 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

of law, in which occupation he is still engaged. He has 
received the degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 189 LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. 

CHARLES SULLIVAN ADAMS, 

The son of John S. and Anna (Pitkin) Adams, was 
born June 27, i860, at Burlington, Vt. He was fitted for 
college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. 
After graduation he accepted a situation in Chicago, Ills., 
with a branch house of the Simonds Manufacturing Co., 
of Fitchburg, Mass., and soon went on the road for the 
firm in Indiana, part of Wisconsin, and Michigan, hand- 
ling circular saws, planing knives, etc. After a year, he 
returned to his home at Jacksonville, Fla. , and read law 
for a year in the office of A. W. Cockrell & Son, The 
next year he spent at the Boston University Law School, 
completing the course in one year, but not receiving his 
degree until June, 1887. In the fall of '87 he returned to 
the office of A. W. Cockrell & Son, becoming junior 
partner of the firm. He was soon admitted to practice 
in the United States Courts and the State Courts. 
January i, 1890, having dissolved his connection with 
A. W. Cockrell & Son, he formed a partnership with 
Rhydon M. Call, nephew of U. S. Senator Call, with 
whom he has been practicing law ever since. He has 
held many responsible positions in Jacksonville, among 
them those of United States Commissioner, Councilman 
for City (three years ; declined re-appointment), Secre- 
tary of the Jacksonville Bar Association, of the New 
England Society of Florida, and of the University As- 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 7 

sociation of Florida. He was married September 25, 
1889, to Claudia Cornelia, daughter of John C. and Sarah 
(Daniel) L'Engle, of Jacksonville, Fla. 

Address : Rooms 12 and 13 Law Exchange (office), 
or 37 East Monroe St. (residence), Jacksonville, Fla. 

JOHN ROGERS AVER, 

The son of Rev. Charles Lathrop and Mary (Bishop) 
Ayer, was born February 15, 1856, at South Killingly, Conn. 
He was fitted for college at the Hartford (Conn.) High 
School. During the fall following graduation he taught 
school for three months in Sprague, Conn. Finding his 
health not equal to the work of teaching, he became 
general assistant in a large fruit raising enterprise at the 
same place, and remained in this work for a year, part of 
the time as superintendent of one of the orchards, and 
part of the time in the office of the business at New 
Britain, Conn. He then purchased, with his brother, a 
farm at Sturbridge, Mass., where he went to live in March, 
1885. He remained there one year, and then changed 
his residence to a farm at Peekskill, N. Y. , where he has 
remained ever since, continuing in farming until 1891, 
and since that time employed as a surveyor. He was 
married September 23, 1885, to Caroline Hall, daughter 
of Rev. Dr. Edward E. and Emily (Watkinson) Rankin, 
of Newark, N. J. 

Address : No. 756 Elm St., Peekskill, N. Y. 

CLINTON J. BACKUS, 

The son of J. L. and Susan M. Backus, was born 
October 5, 1853, at Chaplin, Conn. He was fitted for 



8 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

college at the Monson (Mass.) Academy. Soon after 
graduation he accepted a position as Instructor of Latin, 
Greek and Natural Sciences in Allen Academy, Chicago, 
111. In September, 1884, he became Principal of the 
Baldwin English and Classical Academy, St. Paul, Minn., 
which position he still holds. He has received the degree 
of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. He was married 
June 6, 1886, to Carrie L., daughter of L. P. C. Haskins, 
of Spokane Falls, Wash., and has two children : 

Clinton J., Jr., born September 22, 1887 ; 

David Hiram, born March 7, 1893. 

Address : No. 24 Summit Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 

EDWARD ERASTUS BANCROFT, 

The son of Andrew J. and Mary A. Bancroft, was 
born September 10, 1858, at Lancaster, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Lancaster High School. In the 
fall following graduation he entered the Harvard Medical 
School, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 
June, 1886. He practiced medicine at Waltham, Mass., 
until April, 1887, when he removed to Wellesley, Mass., 
where he has resided ever since. He spent three months 
in 1890 in travel abroad. He was married August 6, 
1890, to Josephine A., daughter of Captain J. O. Given, 
of Bowdoinham, Maine, and has two children : 

Margaret, born July 20, 1891 ; 

Richard, born December, 26, 1892. 

Address : Wellesley, Mass. 

DARWIN L. BARDWELL, 
The son of Z. D. and M. J. Bardwell, was born 
March 30, i860, at Shelburne, Mass. He was fitted for 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 9 

college at the Greenfield (Mass.) High School. In the 
fall of ^S^ he taught two small schools in the vicinity of 
Champaign, 111., where he remained until July, 1884, 
and on his return east became Classical Instructor in an 
academy and boarding school at Greenwich, Conn., where 
he remained for one year. In the fall of '85 he became 
principal of the Union School at Greenport, Long Island, 
where he remained until 1890. He then became Head of 
the Department of Sciences at the State Normal and 
Training School, Cortland, N. Y. , which position he still 
holds. He was married December 28, 1885, to Alice M., 
daughter of John and Anna Babb, of Champaign, 111., 
and has one child : 

Harold E., born December 12, 1886. 

Address : Cortland, N. Y. 



WALLACE CLARKE BOYDEN, 

The son of Albert G. and Isabelle (Clarke) Boyden, 
was born November 22, 1858, at Bridgewater, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Bridgewater Normal School. 
Immediately after graduation he became principal of the 
high school at Stoughton, Mass., which position he held 
for one year. In 1884 he was appointed Instructor in 
Mathematics in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
where he remained for five years, resigning his position in 
December, 1889, to become Sub-master of the Boston 
Normal School, having his residence at Newtonville, 
Mass. He was for two years a member of the School 
Board at Easthampton, and is at present serving New- 
ton in the same capacity. He was married July 8, 



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1885, to Mabel Rossiter, daughter of George H. and 
Martha W. Wetherbee, of Marshfield Hills, Mass., and 
has two children : 

Robert Wetherbee, born March 7, 1889 ; 

Alice Gordon, born July 18, 1892. 

Address : Newtonville, Mass. 

HOWARD ALLEN BRIDGMAN, 

The son of Sidney E. and Harriet (Phelps) Bridgman, 
was born August 20, i860, at Northampton, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Northampton High School. 
The year after graduation he spent in teaching as principal 
of the Granby (Mass.) High School. In the fall of '84 
he became a student of theology at the Hartford Theo- 
logical Seminary, where he remained for a year. In 
September, 1885, he entered the middle class at Yale 
Divinity School, and graduated from that institution with 
the degree of B. D. in May, 1887. July i of the same 
year he became associate editor of The Congregatio?ialist^ 
Boston, Mass. In May, 1890, he became a member of 
the firm of W. L. Green & Co., the publishers of the 
paper, and was promoted to the Managing Editorship in 
January, 1891. He spent three months abroad in the 
summer of 1888. He read a paper before the World's 
Congress of Journalists at Chicago, in May of the present 
year. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. i Somerset St., Boston, Mass. 

CHARLES HENRY BUTLER, 

The son of Rev. John George and Clara E. Butler, 
was born November 27, i860, at Washington, D. C. He 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. II 

was fitted for college at the Columbian Preparatory- 
School, Washington, D. C. After graduation he taught 
in the public schools of Washington until Christmas, and 
in January went to Cumberland, Md., where he remained 
six months, teaching part of the time in the public schools 
of Gettysburg, Pa. Having decided to study theology, 
he returned to Washington in the fall of '84 and began 
the study under the direction of his father, taking Hebrew 
and Greek exegesis at Howard University. In, January, 
1886, he entered the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, 
Pa., where he remained for one year, in the fall of '86 
becoming a student at the Union Theological Seminary, 
New York City, from which he graduated in May, 1887. 
During the year 18S6-87 he was engaged in mission work 
in the city, which work he continued for four months after 
graduation. From October to December, 1887, he sup- 
plied the pulpit of the English Lutheran Church in Frost- 
burg, Md. In April, 1888, he went abroad, remaining 
until February, 1889, after which he assisted his father 
in the pastorate of the Luther Place Memorial Church, of 
Washington, D. C, until May, 1892, when he became 
pastor of the mission of that church, the Keller Memorial 
Lutheran Church, organized by himself. He is un- 
married. 

Address: No. 1107 nth St., N. W., Washington, D.C. 

EDWIN HALLOCK BYINGTON, 

The son of Rev. Theodore Linn and Margaret (Hal- 
lock) Byington, was born December, 15, 1 861, at Adri- 
anople, Bulgaria. He was fitted for college at Robert 
College, Constantinople, and Phillips Academy, Andover, 



12 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Mass. He spent his first year after graduation as general 
secretary of the Armory Hill Y. M. C. A., Springfield, 
Mass., after which he entered the Junior Class in the 
Hartford Theological Seminary, where he spent one year. 
The last two years of his theological study he spent at 
the Auburn (N. Y. ) Theological Seminary, from which he 
graduated May 4, 1887. He was ordained on the 24th 
of the same month by a Congregational Council at Spring- 
field, Mass. At that time he was placed in charge of two 
chapels of the Hope Congregational Church of Spring- 
field, Mass., one on Eastern Avenue, and the other on 
White Street. The former was organized in February, 
1888, into a church, of which he became pastor. He 
remained with the church until the summer of 1891, at 
which time he accepted a position as assistant to Rev. 
Dr. R. S. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., having charge of Pilgrim Chapel, a mission of that 
church. He spent the summer of 1890 abroad in the 
study of mission work, and as a result published a book, 
which is already a classic, upon Open Air Preaching. He 
was married September 2, 1891, to Sophia Weston, 
daughter of Reuben Summer and Sylvia (Weston) Janes, 
of Springfield, Mass, and has had one child : 

Theodore Linn, born July 27, 1892 ; died July 
30, 1892. 

Address: No. 151 Baltic St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

EDWARD A. CAHOON, 

The son of Charles S. and Charlotte C. Cahoon, was 
born August 20, 1862, at Lyndon, Vt. He was fitted 
for college at the Lyndon Academy. After graduation 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 13 

he occupied a position in a real estate office at Minne- 
apolis, Minn., until November, 1884. He then went to 
New Mexico and engaged in the cattle business, in which 
he remained until July, 1887, when he became clerk in 
the Albuquerque National Bank, Albuquerque, N. M., 
where he remained until July, 1890. He then became 
cashier of the Bank of Roswell, New Mexico, which 
position he still holds. He is unmarried. 

Address: Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico. 

JOHN ANDREW CALLAHAN, 

The son of Michael and Ann Callahan, was born May 
19,1860. [His birthplace is unknown.] He was fitted for 
college at the Barre (Mass.) High School. During the 
first year after graduation he taught the English branches 
at Barre. In July, 1884, he was elected principal of 
the Nonotuck Street Grammar School, Holyoke, Mass., 
which position he still holds. He has received the de- 
gree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. He has pub- 
lished a circular chart showing relation of longitude and 
time. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 10 Pleasant St., Holyoke, Mass. 

ISRAEL FOLSOM CHESLEY, 

The son of John Folsom and Abigail (George) 
Chesley, was born October 6, i860, at Lee, N. H. He 
was fitted for college at the Salisbury (Mass.) High 
School, and Phillips (Exeter) Academy. In July, 1883, 
he assumed charge of the office of S. N. & C. Russell, 
woolen manufacturers, of Pittsfield, Mass. The firm was 



14 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

incorporated in December, 1885, when he became a 
director and secretary and treasurer of the corporation. 
He has held positions of prominence in Pittsfield, among 
them member of the school committee, and has taken 
a leading part in Republican politics. He was married 
October 31, 1883, to Bertha Madalene, daughter of 
Solomon N. and Caroline W. Russell, of Pittsfield, Mass., 
and has had four children : 

Solomon Russell, born March 29, 1885. (The 
Class Boy.) 

Israel FoLSOM, Jr., born November 28, 1887; died 
May 10, 1891. 

Franklin Russell, born December i, 1889; 

Malcolm, born May 20, 1891. 

Address: Pittsfield, Mass. 

WILLIAM CLAFLIN, 

The son of James F. and Caroline (Poole) Claflin, 
was born March 26, 1862, at Marlboro, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Chicago High School. During 
the summer and fall of 1883 he studied law, and in 
January, 1884, entered the law office of S. W. Packard, 
Chicago. In November, 1884, he left the above named 
office to enter that of Bryan & Hatch, No. 95 Washington 
Street, Chicago. During the winter of '84 and '85 he 
taught in the Chicago night schools. In June, 1885, his 
health broke down and he went to Las Vegas, New 
Mexico. Returning to Chicago in August, 1885, he 
obtained an agency for mining machinery, and travelled 
through Colorado and New Mexico until October. He 
then took charge of a concentrating plant at Cerrillos, 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 15 

New Mexico, and, shortly after, of the smelter yard of 
the Graphic Mining and Smelting Co., at Socorro, New 
Mexico. June i, 1886, he became a partner with his 
uncle, Isaac Clafiin, in the real estate business, at 154 
Lake Street, Chicago, where he has since remained. He 
has been for several terms alderman of the city of 
Lombard, 111., where he resides. He was married 
October 14, 1886, to Grace, daughter of Stephen R. and 
Annie F. Thurston, of Lombard, 111. 

Address: No. 154 Lake St., Chicago (office), or Lom- 
bard (residence). 111. 

WALTER CLAYTON CLAPP, 

The son of Simeon W. and Lorenda M. Clapp, was 
born at Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont, January 
20, 1 86 1. He was prepared for college by a private 
tutor at his home in New York City. He spent the 
summer after graduation near Boston, taking a course in 
chemistry at Harvard. In the fall he matriculated at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 
where he remained one year. He then became a teacher 
in the Fifth Avenue School for Boys, New York City, and 
in the fall of '85 entered upon the study of theology at 
the General Theological Seminary, (Prot. Epis.), New 
York City, from which institution he graduated in the 
spring of '88. He was ordained to the Diaconate at 
Calvary Church, New York City, by the Right Rev. H. 
C. Potter, December 18, 1887. He served the Mount 
Calvary Church of Baltimore as Deacon during 1888-89, 
and was Priest-in-Charge of the Chapel of St. Mary the 
Virgin in Baltimore from 1889 to 1892, since which time 



1 6 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

he has been Professor of Exegesis in the Nashotah Theo- 
logical Seminary, Nashotah, Wis. He is unmarried. 

Address: Nashotah Theological Seminary, Nashotah, 
Wis. 

IRVING EDWARD COMINS, 

The son of Edward Issachar and Mary (Clark) 
Comins, was born July 28, i860, at Charlton, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Worcester (Mass.) High 
School. He went to work immediately after graduation 
at Rochdale, Mass., starting a woolen mill; and in the 
February following began the manufacture of skirt goods. 
In the spring of '85 he spent two months abroad in search 
of health. He has continued in the woolen business since 
he first entered it, being at present an active partner in 
firm of Comins & Co. He has been a member of the city 
council of Worcester since January i, 1890, and President 
of the Council since January i, 1893. He was married 
June 8, 1887, to Etta Rosella, daughter of Charles D. 
and Julia (Newton) Leonard, of Worcester, Mass., and 
has one child : 

Edward Irving, born March 12, 1889. 

Address: 46 Wellington St., Worcester, Mass. 

THOMAS LAMB COMSTOCK, 

The son of William Ogilvie and Margaret (Eliot) 
Comstock, was born September 18, 1861, at Boston, Mass. 
He was fitted for college at Greenfield, Mass. The day 
after the class supper he entered the employ of the 
Turner's Falls Lumber Co., and has remained with the 
company ever since. For the last six years he has been 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 17 

treasurer and a director of the company. He is also a 

director of the New England Fibre Co. He was married 

September i6, 1891, to Eliza Perkins Grinnell, daughter 

of Thomas W. and Ella (Grinnell) Ripley, of Greenfield, 

Mass. 

Address: Greenfield, Mass. 

FRANK ETHRIDGE COTTON, 

The son of N. Franklin and Lydia (Ethridge) Cotton, 
was born September 27, 1861, at Hamilton, Ohio. He 
was fitted for college at the Stoneham (Mass.) High 
School. Late in the summer of '83 he went west and 
taught at Lanark, 111., until April 1,1884, when he gave up 
his school to accept a position with the Eau Claire Lum- 
ber Co., of Eau Claire, Wis. He remained in the employ 
of the company for four years, residing at Eau Claire 
from April, 1884, to April, 1885, and at St. Louis, Mo., 
from April, 1885, to February, 1888. From February, 
1888, to March, 1892, he was cashier and book-keeper 
of the St. Louis Steam Heating and Ventilating Co. In 
April, 1892, he became connected with the Russell 
Counter Co., of Woburn, Mass., by which firm he is still 
employed, residing at Stoneham, Mass. He was married 
November 12, 1889, to Annie C, daughter of George H. 
and Ardelia (Tapley) Putney, of Stoneham, Mass., and 
has one child : 

Edith Frances, born October 12, 1890. 

Address: Stoneham, Mass. 

AVERY FAYETTE CUSHMAN, 
The son of Avery R. and Augusta M. Cushman, was 
bom August 28, i860, at Amherst, Mass, He was fitted 



1 8 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

for college at the Amherst High School. From October, 
1883, to June, 1885, he was a student at the Boston 
University School of Law, from which institution he 
received the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk County (Mass.) bar July 21, 1885. In the fall of 
the same year he entered the law office of Goodrich, 
Deady & Goodrich, New York City, in whose employ he 
has remained ever since. He was married June 14, 1888, 
to Mary Adelaide, daughter of Jotham E. and Caroline 
S. Hedden, of East Orange, N. J., and has had two 
children : 

Dorothy, born January 18, 1890; died January 19, 
1890 ; 

Caroline, born January 17th, 1893. 

Address: No. 59 Wall St., New York City. 

CHRISTAKES APOSTOLOS DEREBEY, 

The son of Apostolos and Ellene (Ezene) Derebey, 
was born February 11, 1857, at Broussa, Turkey. He 
was fitted for college at Athens, Greece. In the Septem- 
ber following graduation he entered Hartford Theological 
Seminary, where he studied for two years, completing his 
course at Andover Theological Seminary, from which he 
received the degree of B.D., in May, 1886. August 10, 
1886, he became pastor of the Congregational Church, at 
Cornish, Maine, where he remained for a year, removing 
to Portland, Maine, October 20, 1887. In May, 1888, he 
accepted a call to the Congregational Church at West 
Brooksville, Maine. He remained in the pastorate of the 
latter church for three years. July ist, 1890, he became 
pastor of the First Congregational Church of Clintonville, 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. I9 

Wis., which position he still holds. He was married 
October 3, 1888, to Nellie Frances, daughter of Benjamin 
Frank and Rebecca (Mitchell) Pease, of Cornish, Maine, 
and has two children : 

Harold Pericles, born July 5, 1889 ; 

Franklin Pease, born February 19, 1892. 

Address: Clintonville, Wis. 

ALMON JESSE DYER, 

The son of Henry M. and Lucretia (Willcutt) Dyer, 
was born October 28, 1857, at Cummington, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Westfield (Mass.) State 
Normal School. He entered Hartford Theological Sem- 
inary in September, 1883, and graduated in the spring of 
1886. June 4, 1886, he was installed pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church at Upton, Mass, where he remained 
for six years, resigning to accept the pastorate of the 
First Congregational Church of North Brookfield, Mass., 
which position he still holds. He was married May 25, 
1886, to Lizzie Jane, daughter of Jacob and Laura 
(Barrus) Lovell, of Cummington, Mass., and has one 
child : 

Ruth Elizabeth, born March 10, 1889. 

Address: North Brookfield, Mass. 

HENRY FAIRBANK, 

The son of Samuel Bacon and Mary (Ballantine) 
Fairbank, was born at Wadale, Bombay Presidency, India, 
June 30, 1862. He was fitted for college with the Rev. 
C. E. Park, at West Boxford, Mass., and at Phillips 
Academy, Andover. In the fall following graduation he 



20 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

entered upon the study of theology at the Yale Divinity 
School, where he graduated in the spring of '86, receiv- 
ing the degree of B. D. He was ordained as a missionary 
at Hatfield, Mass., May 27, 1886, President Seeley 
preaching the sermon. Early in July he sailed for India. 
He spent a short time in England, reaching India late in 
August. He has continued since that time in missionary 
work under the A. B. C. F. M. in the Ahmednagar 
District of the Bombay Presidency in India. He left 
India for the United States on the 8th of April, 1893, on 
a year's furlough. He was married September 16, 1886, 
to Ruby Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Charles and 
Elizabeth (Darling) Harding, of Sholapur, Bombay Presi- 
dency, India, and has three children : 

Samuel Ballantine, born December 7, 1887 ; 

Allan Melvin, born September 27, 1889 ; 

Ruth Elizabeth, born February 29, 1892. 

Address: Sonai, Bombay Presidency, India. 

WALTER TAYLOR FIELD, 

The son of Horatio Nelson and Charity (Taylor) 
Field, was born February 21, 1861, at Galesburg, 111. 
He was fitted for college at Denmark Academy, Denmark, 
Iowa. He spent two years with the class of 'S^ at Dart- 
mouth, leaving in September, 1881, to join the class of 
'8^ at Amherst, with which he graduated. He has resided 
since graduation at Chicago, 111. About October i, 1883, 
he secured a position as manuscript and proof reader in 
the publishing house of S. C. Griggs & Co. He remained 
with the firm for three years, and then became associate 
editor of T/ie Advance^ of Chicago, in which position he 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 21 

remained until March i, 1887. He then became con- 
nected with the western department of Harper & Bros., 
publishers, as correspondent, which position he occupied 
until March, 1890. After leaving their employ he 
travelled for three months abroad, returning April i, 1890, 
to accept a position with Ginn & Co., publishers, Chicago, 
which position he still holds. He has just been granted 
a year's leave of absence from business. He expects to 
spend part of the year in California. He was married 
December 6, 1892, to Sarah Lounsberry, daughter of 
Charles and Harriett (Shotwell) Peck, of Chicago, 111. 
Address : Care Ginn & Co., publishers, Chicago, IIU 



FRANK HERBERT FITTS, 

The son of Charles H. and Emeline A. Fitts, was 
born April 30, 1861, at Medway, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Walpole (Mass.) and HoUiston (Mass.) 
High Schools. In the fall following graduation he ac- 
cepted a position in the office of the Bradley Fertilizer Co. 
of Boston, with which firm he remained for three years, 
for the first two years in their office, and for the last year 
as superintendent of the Sulphuric Acid Works. He was 
connected with the Bowker Fertilizer Co. during the year 
1887-88. Since the latter date he has been engaged in 
the wholesale grain business in Boston. He was married 
June 21, 1888, to Mary Gleason, daughter of Abram W. 
and Sophronia (Ellis) Collins, of Brighton District, Boston, 
Mass. 

Address : Oakland St., Brighton District, Boston, 
Mass. 



22 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

GEORGE BYRON FOSTER, 

The son of John P. and Sarah A. Foster, was born 
December i, 1858, at North Andover, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. After 
graduation he became connected with the publishing house 
of D. Lothrop & Co., in Boston. After remaining with 
them a year, he accepted a situation with Pulsifer, Jor- 
dan & Pfaff, and remained there until a severe attack of 
sickness compelled him to relinquish active duties. On 
recovering his health he entered the banking business, 
becoming connected with the Massachusetts National 
Bank, of Boston, Mass. He has remained in their employ 
up to the present time. He is unmarried. 

Address : No. 49 Chester Square, Boston, Mass. 

EDWIN FOWLER, 

The son of Henry and Ellen (Phelps) Fowler, was 
born March 12, 1861, at Hammond, N. Y. He was fitted 
for college at Gouverneur Seminary, Gouverneur, N. Y. 
After graduation he resided at home for a year, studying 
mechanical drafting, etc., as a preparation for the pro- 
fession of a mechanical engineer, but, finding no opening in 
this direction, he went to Kansas in June, 1884, and August 
28, 1884, he began work in the office of the Central Loan 
and Land Co. of Emporia, Kansas, as stenographer. He 
remained in this capacity for four years, and in April, 
1888, became a director and secretary of the company. 
The business was moved in November, 1889, to Kansas 
City, Mo., where he has since resided. The firm is now 
known as the Central Loan Debenture Co., with offices in 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 23 

the New York Life Insurance Building, Kansas City. 
He was married September 8, 1886, to Jennie, daughter 
of James Brodie, of Gouverneur, N. Y., and has two 
children : 

Margaret, born July, 28, 1888; 

Helen, born July 20, 1890. 

Address : loi New York Life Insurance Building, 
Kansas City, Mo. 

ENOCH WINFIELD FRENCH, 

The son of Samuel R. and Ellen L. French, was born 
January 14, 1862, at Providence, R. I. He was fitted for 
college at the Woburn (Mass.) High School. On October 
15, 1883, having passed a successful examination for ad- 
mittance to the United States Signal Corps, he was 
ordered to Fort Myer, Va., for the usual course of 
instruction. He remained at Fort Myer and on duty at 
the chief office in Washingten, D. C, until June 7, 1884, 
when he was ordered to Nashville, Tenn., as Assistant 
Observer. March 13, 1886, he was ordered to Fort 
Grant, Arizona Territory, one of the largest and finest 
military posts in Arizona, to become Observer in charge 
of the meteorological work and Operator in charge of the 
military telegraph office belonging to the California and 
Arizona Division of military telegraph lines. March 25, 
1886, he took charge of the station at Prescott, Arizona. 
He remained in the signal corps for five years, then re- 
signed to accept the offices of Superintendent of Public 
Schools and Probate Judge of Yorapai County, Arizona 
Territory, having his headquarters at Prescott. He was 
elected for his third term as Probate Judge, November 8, 



24 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

1892. He is also interested in the stock business. He 
was married September 15, 1887, to Adalina M., daughter 
of Atlantic A. and Nancy Moore, of Prescott, Arizona, 
and has two children : 

Olive Louise, born May 31, 1888; 

George Marshall, born November 22, 1889. 

Address : Prescott, Arizona. 



JONATHAN GREENLEAF, 

The son of E. Scott and Sarah (Greenleaf) Young (he 
assumed his mother's maiden name by legal process in 
1887), was born March 14, 1861, at Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
was fitted for college at the Brooklyn, (N. Y.) Collegiate 
and Polytechnic Institute, and the Amherst High School. 
He spent the first three years after graduation in the 
study of theology at the Union Theological Seminary in 
New York City, graduating from that institution May 11, 
1886. August 12, 1886, he became pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Hobart, N. Y. , over which he was 
installed by the Presbytery of Otsego, September 22, 1886. 
The pastoral relation was dissolved September 29, 1889, 
and October 15 of the same year he was installed pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Hawley, Pa., which 
position he still holds. He received the degree of M. A. 
(in course) from Amherst. He was married July 6, 1887, 
to Laurette May, daughter of Reuben and Sarah E. But- 
ton, of Milford, N. H., and has one child : 

Jonathan Parsons, born May 2, 1888. 

Address : Hawley, Wayne County, Pa. 



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CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 25 

MARTIN LUTHER GRIFFIN, 

The son of John and Naomi A. Griffin, was born May 
21, 1859, at Smith's Ferry, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at the Holyoke (Mass.) High School. On the 
20th of October following graduation he opened a labor- 
atory at Holyoke, Mass., as an analytical and consulting 
chemist. In February, 1884, he became inspector of milk 
and vinegar for the city, and in February, 1885, was ap- 
pointed inspector of petroleum. September 17, 1885, he 
became connected with the Hudson River Water Power & 
Paper Co., at Mechanicsville, N. Y., as Consulting 
Chemist. He has continued in this last position up to 
the present date. He has resided since January i, 1892, 
at Albany, N. Y. He has received the degree of M. A, 
(in course) from Amherst. He is unmarried. 

Address : Albany, N. Y. 

EDWARD A. GUERNSEY, 

The son of Peter C. and Martha (Allen) Guernsey, 
was born January i, 1861, at East Bridgewater, Pa. He 
was fitted for college at the Amherst High School. Sep- 
tember I, 1883, he became Instructor in Latin and Eng- 
lish in a boys' fitting school at Colora, Md. In the fall of 
'84 he became Assistant Principal of the high school at 
River Falls, Wis., where he remained for one year. The 
following year (1885-6) was spent in the study of Latin 
and Greek as a post graduate at Amherst. In the fall of 
*86 he went to New Orleans, La., as instructor in Straight 
University, where he remained until the following June. 
During the summer he entered the office of the Bridge 



26 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Teachers* Agency of Boston, and in the fall removed to 
Minneapolis to open and manage a western office of the 
business, but soon removed his office to St. Paul, where 
he continued in the business for about three years. For 
the past three years he has been connected with the 
wholesale music house of W. J. Dyer & Brother, of St. 
Paul and Minneapolis, where he has recently been pro- 
moted to the charge of the wholesale piano and organ 
department. He was married November lo, 1888, to 
Helen C, daughter of George H. and Annie (Rossiter) 
Shipman, of Philadelphia, Pa. 

Address : 148 and 150 East 3d St., St. Paul, Minn. 



SAMUEL WORTHINGTON HALLETT, 

The son of Samuel VVorthington and Mary S. Hallett, 
was born November 20, 1858, at Hyannis, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Barnstable (Mass.) High 
School. In the fall of 1883 he became principal of the 
grammar school at Ware, Mass., where he continued to 
teach until March, 1886, when he resigned to begin the 
study of medicine. From Ware he went to Burlington, 
Vt., for the study of his chosen profession, but in the 
fall of 1886 he was again called to Ware, Mass., this time 
to the principalship of the high school. He accepted the 
call and remained in the position for five years. Since 
the summer of 1891 he has been superintendent of schools 
in Barnstable, residing in Hyannis. He has received the 
degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. He is un- 
married. 

Address: Hyannis, Mass. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 2^ 

WALTER LEWIS HALLET, 

The son of Capt. Charles and Charlotte E. Hallet, 
was born January i, i860, at Mansfield, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at Bristol Academy, Taunton, Mass. 
After graduating from Amherst he entered upon the study 
of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, where he 
graduated with the degree of M. D. in June, 1886. He 
has since resided at Mansfield, Mass., engaged in the 
practice of his profession. He was married September 
24, 1 891, to Kate S., daughter of John B. and Abby S. 
Williams, of Easton, Mass. 

Address: Mansfield, Mass. 



CHARLES W. HAMILTON, 

The son of Woodman C. and Mary T. Hamilton, was 
born September 23, i860, at Fond-du-Lac, Wis. He was 
fitted for college at the Fond-du-Lac High School. He 
spent the first two years of collegiate study with the class 
of '^2>^ Dartmouth, entering the class of '2>;^^ Amherst, in 
the junior year. After graduation he returned to Fond- 
du-Lac and assisted his father in his lumber interests and 
other business until January r, 1884, when he removed 
his residence to Milwaukee, and has ever since been con- 
nected with the Milwaukee Harvester Co. He is now 
secretary and treasurer of the company. He was married 
September 6, 1888, to Elizabeth Frazier, daughter of 
Francis W. and Carrie E. Noyes, of Milwaukee, Wis., 
and has two children: 

Raymond Noyes, born September i, 1889; 



28 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Kenneth Charles, born April 17, 1892. 
Address: No. 155 Huron St. (office), or 3,100 Grand 
Ave. (residence), Milwaukee, Wis. 

FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMLIN, - 

The son of Wolcott and Susan Haralin, was born 
September 21, 1862, at Dover, N. H. He was fitted for 
college at the Natchaug High School, Willimantic, Conn., 
and the Amherst High School. After leaving college, he 
secured a position as teacher in a boarding school at 
Nyack-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. In the fall of 1884 he 
accepted an instructorship in Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton, Mass., but at the close of the second term his 
health failed, and he was compelled to stop work. He 
was not completely recovered until August, 1885. In 
October of the same year he began a three years' course 
in the New York Homoepathic Medical College, from 
which he graduated in 1888 with the degree of M. D. Lie 
has practiced medicine in New York City since that time. 
He also holds the position of Assistant Professor of 
Obstetrics in the New York Homeopathic Medical College 
and Hospital. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 231 West 52d St., New York City. 

DAVID PHILLIPS HATCH, 

The son of David Phillips and Ann (Dwelly) Hatch, 
was born October 16, 1856, at Marshfield, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. He 
entered the Hartford Theological Seminary in the fall of 
1883, and continued there through the course, graduating 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 29 

May 13, 1886. On leaving the seminary, he accepted a 
call to the Congregational Church of Rockland, Maine, 
where he began work July i, 1886. He remained in the 
pastorate of this church until September 30, 1891, when 
he became pastor of the Auburn Street Congregational 
Church of Paterson, N. J., which position he still holds. 
He was married October 27, 1886, to Caroline, daughter 
of the Rev. Dr. William W. and Mary (Smith) Patton, of 
Washington, D. C. Mrs. Hatch died January 19, 1893. 
Address: No. 6;^ Carroll St., Paterson, N. J. 

FOSTER STRONG HAVEN, 

The son of Franklin and Eliza Haven, was born at 
Vergennes, Vt., July 21, 1858. He was fitted for college 
in his native town. After leaving Amherst, he spent 
three years in the study of medicine at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, from which he 
graduated with the degree of M. D., May 13, 1886. The 
following summer and winter was spent in hospital and 
dispensary work in the city of New York. In March, 
1887, he opened an office for the practice of medicine at 
No. 143 West 6ist Street, where he has since resided. He 
is unmarried. 

Address: No. 143 West 6ist St., New York City. 

WILLIE PERKINS HOLCOMBE, 

The son of Walter C. and Abigail J. Holcombe, was 
born August 19, 1862, at Sunderland, Vt. He was fitted 
for college at the high school in Westfield, Mass. 
January i, 1884, he began the study of law in the office 



30 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

of Leonard & Welles, Springfield, Mass., with whom he 
remained until October i, when he entered the Boston 
University Law School, and graduated with the degree of 
LL.B., June 2, 1886. At the law school he won the 
Johnston prize for the best essay on a legal topic. He 
was admitted to the Boston bar in the same summer, and 
immediately opened an office at No. 62 Devonshire Street, 
where he has ever since been practicing his profession. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 



FRED ROGERS HOLT, 

The son of and Lucy (Rogers) Holt, was 

born December 11, 1855, at Huntington, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at Brimfield, Mass. The three years fol- 
lowing graduation were spent in the study of theology at 
the Baptist Seminary in Rochester, N. Y., where he gradu- 
ated in May, 1886. He accepted a call to the pastorate 
of the Baptist Church at Yates, Orleans County, N. Y. , 
where he remained until September i, 1889. A weak- 
ness of the throat compelled him to give up public speak- 
ing for three years. He was engaged in Y. M. C. A. 
work in Wellsville, N. Y., from October 10, 1890, until 
April 25, 1893, since which time he has resided at Roches- 
ter. He was married August 5, 1886, to Fannie Eliza- 
beth, daughter of H. C. and Jane (Barber) Heath, of 
Rochester, N. Y. 

Address: 43 Hay ward Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 3 1 

GEORGE ELLSWORTH HOOKER, 

The son of William Davenport and Esther (Bickford) 
Hooker, was born April 25, 1861, at Peacham, Vt. He 
was fitted for college at the Barre (Vt.) Academy. The 
first two years after graduation he spent in the study of 
law at the Columbia Law School, New York City, from 
which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in May, 
1885. He was admitted to the New York Bar the follow- 
ing June, and engaged in the practice of law until the 
fall of 1887. During the winter of 1885-1886 he was 
managing clerk for Gov. D. H. Chamberlain, and the 
firm of Richards & Brown, at No. 40 Wall Street; from 
May I, 1886, until he gave up the law business, he held 
the same position in the office of H. A. Root, No. 10 
Wall Street. In the fall of 1887 he entered the Union 
Theological Seminary in New York City, where he 
remained one year, completing his theological course at 
the Yale Divinity School, where he graduated with the 
degree of B. D., in May, 1890. During the following 
year he was pastor of the Congregational Churches at 
Endicott and St. John, Wash., holding both positions at 
the same time, and from 1891 to the present time has 
been pastor of the Congregational Church at Medical 
Lake, Wash. He resigned his position in July, 1893, and 
expects to go abroad in the fall for a year, with three 
other members of the (Washington) Yale Band. He 
plans to spend part of the time in study at Oxford and 
Edinburgh, and the rest in travel. He has published a 
pamphlet, '*Too Many Weak and Rival Churches in 
Eastern Washington." He is unmarried. 

Address: Barre, Vt. 



32 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

HEZEKIAH SEYMOUR HOUGHTON, 

The son of Matthew H. and Sarah (Seymour) Hough- 
ton, was born April 7, 1862, at Piermont, N. Y. He was 
fitted for college at Mr. Decker's School, in his native 
place. In the fall following graduation, he began the 
study of medicine under the direction of Prof. Dennis, of 
the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. 
He completed the course in March, 1886, graduating with 
the degree of M. D. , at the head of his class. Having from 
his standing secured the choice of positions in Bellevue 
Hospital, he selected the third surgical division, where 
he remained until the summer of 1887, when his service 
in the hospital was abruptly terminated by a severe attack 
of typhoid fever, from which he did not fully recover 
until December. He sailed for Europe January 28th, 
1888, and remained abroad for one year, pursuing special 
medical studies in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Returning 
to this country in the fall of 1889, he commenced the 
practice of medicine in New York City, where he has 
since resided. He has received the degree of M. A. (in 
course) from Amherst. He is a member of the New York 
Academy of Medicine, of the County Medical Society and 
Association of New York, and is physician of the Mutual 
Aid Association of New York. He was married January 
5, 1888, to Sarah, daughter of William R. and Rebecca 
Preston, of Irvington, N. Y., and has two children: 

Florence Preston, born June 28th, 1889; 

Helene Seymour, born June 8, 1891. 

Address: No. 301 West 88th St., New York City. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 33 

DAVID BRAINARD ROWLAND, 

The son of Rev. William W. and Susan (Reed) How- 
land, was born May 8, 1861, at Conway, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at WilHston Seminary, Easthampton, 
Mass. Shortly after graduation, he began work as a 
reporter on the Hampshh-e Daily Herald^ Northampton, 
Mass. Within a year he became half owner of the paper, 
which interest he sold August, 1885, and removed his 
residence to Rutland, Vt., where he became night editor 
of the Daily Herald^ the largest and oldest paper in the 
state. He left that paper and went to Springfield, Mass., 
February 18, 1887, and has since that time been a mem- 
ber of the editorial force of the Springfield Republican. 
He has received the degree of M. A. (in course) from 
Amherst. He is unmarried. 

Address: Care Springfield Republican^ Springfield, 
Mass. 



ALVAH LINCOLN HYDE, 

The son of Charles and Julia (Lincoln) Hyde, was 
born April i, i860, at Winchendon, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Southbridge (Mass.) High School. 
After devoting the larger part of the summer and fall of 
1883 to a run of typhoid fever, he assisted his father in 
the lumber business until December i, 1884, when he 
became a partner in the business. He remained in it 
until January i, 1892, when he became a student of law at 
Southbridge, in which occupation he is still engaged. He 
was married May 12, 1885, to Lulu L., daughter of Daniel 



34 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

and Elizabeth (Hill) Whitford, of Southbridge, Mass., 
and has one child: 

Elizabeth Lincoln, born May 17, 1886. 

Address: Southbridge, Mass. 

JOHN MACKIE JOHNSON, 

The son of Frank and Mary R. Johnson, was born 
December 6, 1859, at Norwich, Conn. He was fitted for 
college at the Norwich Free Academy. After graduation 
he engaged in business with his father in Norwich, bank- 
ing and caring for trust funds. In the summer of 1884 
he travelled in Europe. His father died in the winter of 
1887-1888, and he has since continued the business, 
besides holding the positions of director and trustee in 
many important business enterprises in Norwich. He 
was given the degree of A. B. by Amherst, June, 1893. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: Norwich, Conn. 

FREDERICK KENDALL, 

The son of Nicanor and Laura (Hubbard) Kendall, 
was born November 29, 1855, at Windsor, Vermont. He 
was fitted for college at the Waltham (Mass.) High 
School, and the preparatory department of Denison 
University, Granville, Ohio. September i, 1883, he 
began work at Eau Claire, Wis., for the Eau Claire Lum- 
ber Co. After two years he was taken into the office, 
and six months later had complete charge of the books. 
He held his position with the company until the spring of 
1887, when, with others, he organized the Fort Scott 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 35 

Lumber Co., with headquarters at Fort Scott, Kansas. 
He has been connected with this company ever since. 
He was married September lo, 1890, to Asenath, daugh- 
ter of John B. and Asenath Candy, of St. Louis, Mo., 
and has one child: 

Rachel Hubbard, born January 15, 1892. 

Address: No. 405 Lowman St., Fort Scott, Kansas. 

JOSEPH RAMSDELL KINGMAN, 

The son of Benjamin Franklin and Adelaide E. King- 
man, was born April 15, i860, at Chicago, 111. He was 
fitted for college at the Minneapolis High School and the 
University of Minnesota. After graduation he entered 
upon the study of law in the office of Woods & Hahn, 
Minneapolis. He was admitted to the bar April 17, 1885, 
and in the following July became the junior partner of 
the firm with which he studied, under the firm name of 
Woods, Hahn & Kingman. January i, 1888, Mr. Hahn 
retired from the firm, and Woods & Kingman succeeded 
to the business. He was married October 21, 1891, to 
Mabel Stanley, daughter of Henry E. and Eleanor Selden, 
of Minneapolis, Minn., and has one child: 

Elizabeth Ramsdell, born September 24, 1892. 

Address: Care Woods & Kingman, Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

FRANK HENRY KNIGHT, 

The son of Rev. Merrick and Abbie (Ward) Knight, was 
born February 28, 1859, at Hebron, Conn. He was fitted 
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. 



36 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

He was compelled to leave college during the first term 
of the Senior year on account of an attack of nervous 
prostration. From January 15 to June i, 1884, he 
attended General Walker's lectures on political economy 
at the Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. From 
February, 1885, to the end of the college year he attended 
lectures on history and political science at Cornell 
University. In the fall of '85 he entered the Senior class 
of Yale College, where he remained until June, 1886. 
From April, 1887, to September, 1888, he studied law 
with Hyde, Gross & Hyde, of Haitford, Conn. From 
October, 1888, to June, 1889, he was a student at the 
Columbia College Law School. Since '89 he has been 
connected with the law firms of Sackett & Bennett, Cou- 
dert Bros., and Logan, Clark & Demond, all of New York 
City. He is at present managing clerk with the last 
named firm. Amherst gave him the degree of B. A. in 
1889. He is unmarried. 

Address : No. 62 West 48th St., New York City. 



WILBERT B. LEW, 

The son of Peter B. and Carrie S. Lew, was born 
May 6, 1861, at Gardner, Mass. He was fitted for college 
at the Gardner High School. After graduation he studied 
Veterinary medicine under D. Magner, at Battle Creek, 
Mich. From June i, 1888, to November i, 1889, he was 
employed as receiving clerk with J. N. Leonard & Co., 
silk manufacturers, Northampton, Mass. November i, 
1889, he opened an ofiice for the practice of Veterinary 
medicine in Florence, Mass., in which profession he has 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 37 

since continued. He was married August 19, 1882, to 
Hattie, daughter of Ira and Azubah Burghardt, of Am- 
herst, Mass. 

Address : Amherst, Mass., (residence); or Florence, 
Mass., (office). 



THEODORE GRAHAM LEWIS, 

The son of Simon Ephraim and Mary (Harding) 
Lewis, was born June 12, 1861, at Potosi, Wis. He was 
fitted for college at the Beloit (Wis.) Preparatory School 
and the Dubuque (Iowa) High School. After graduation 
he entered the Harward Law School, where he pursued a 
three years' course, interrupted during the first and second 
years by a serious attack of intermittent fever. He prac- 
ticed law with the following firms in New York City: 
Carter, Hornblower & Byrne, Mack & Lewis, Parrish & 
Pendleton, and Eaton & Lewis. In January, 1891, he 
was specially retained by the last named firm to assist in 
a series of important patent cases in which that firm 
appeared as solicitors of record. This work made it 
necessary for him to travel almost continuously until July. 
By exposure he laid the foundation of an attack of pneu- 
monia, which overtook him in August, 1891. Upon con- 
valescence his health demanded a residence in Colorado, 
to which state he removed in September, 1891, where he 
has since resided. He has been for a time in the law 
office of the Hon. Henry W. Hobson, in Denver. 

Address: "The Holland," No. 1,760 Pennsylvania 
Ave., or care University Club, Denver, Colo. 



38 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

JOHN WATKINS LOW, 

The son of Henry R. and Mary C. Low, was born 
Dfecember 28, 1861, at Monticello, N. Y. He was fitted 
for college at the Amherst High School. Shortly after 
graduation he went to Arizona with a view of entering the 
cattle business. Circumstances changed his plans, and 
for a year and a half he edited the Liberty Register^ at 
Liberty, N. Y. He was on the staff of the New York 
Star for four months, and then became engaged in the 
manufacture of tanners' and curriers' tools, wood-working 
machinery and patent articles, at Middletown, N. Y. 
During the winter of 1887-8 and until December i, 1888, 
he was private secretary to his father, who was a member 
of the State Senate of New York. His father died on the 
last named date, and he entered the real estate business 
in Middletown, N. Y. , in which occupation he remained 
for two years. Since 1891 he has been connected with 
the Rider Engine Co., No. 37 Dey St., New York, and 
has charge of their exhibit at the World's Fair. He has 
written special humorous verses for the New York Sun. 
He was married December 20, 1889, to Elizabeth Rose 
McChesney, daughter of Edward M. and Annie M. Scott, 
of Middletown, N. Y. 

Address : 24 West 9th St., New York City. 

COREY FULLER McFARLAND, 

The son of Corey and Mary (Woodcock) McFarland, 
was born June 19, 1861, at Chicopee, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Amherst High School. After 
leaving Amherst he went to Southern Pennsylvania and 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 39 

began the study of the railroad construction business, but 
sickness compelled him to give up this work, and after a 
few months spent at home he went to St. Louis, where he 
took an interest in the flour brokerage concern of M. 
Leftwich & Co. After about fifteen months he removed 
to Memphis, Tenn. , having received an offer of the 
management of the flour department of R. J. Woods & 
Co., where he remained for two years. In July, 1887, he 
became Secretary of the Wing Flour Mill Co., of Char- 
leston, 111., which position he still holds. He is also Pres- 
ident of the Charleston Elevator & Warehouse Co., 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Charleston Canning Co., 
and a director of the Rock Island, Peoria & St. Louis 
R. R. Co. He was married November 4, 1887, to Mamie 
D., daughter of General John C. and Hays D. Fizer, of 
Memphis, Tenn., and has one child: 

Malcolm, born May 5, 1890. 

Address: Charleston, 111. 



JOHN HART MANNING, 

The son of Rev. John Hart and Lois (Batchelder) 
Manning, was born February 3, 1858, at Andover, Mass. 
He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. 
In the fall following graduation he became principal of 
the high school at West Barnstable, Mass., where he re- 
mained for three years. He then became principal of 
the Toulon Academy, Toulon, 111, where he remained for 
a year, and in February, 1888, he became principal of 
the high school at Groton, Mass., which position he still 
holds. He was married September 2, 1886, to Mary 



40 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Frances, the daughter of Francis and Ellen (Mason) 
Woodbridge, of Andover, Mass., and has one child: 

Mervyn Mason, born June 21, 1888. 

Address: Box 292, Groton, Mass. 

FRANK BALLARD MARSH, 

The son of Edward H. and Harriette (Wells) Marsh, 
was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., July 20, i860. He was 
fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly- 
technic Institute. In October, after graduation, he 
entered the office of Lazell, Marsh & Gardner, wholesale 
druggists, 10 Gold St., New York City. In the summer 
of '84 he spent four months in travel abroad, and in 
November entered the employ of the Connecticut River 
R. R. at Springfield, Mass. He retained his position in 
the Passenger Department there until March, 1887, when 
he returned to Brooklyn, his former home, and accepted 
a position with William MacNaughton Sons, 168-170 
South 5th Ave., New York City. A few months ago he 
became Secretary of the firm of Lazell, Dalley & Co., 
perfumers, of New York City. He was married October 
3, 1888, to Marion, daughter of William H. and Frances 
H. Bolton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has one child: 

Edward Henry, born November 3, 1889. 

Address: No. no Beekman St., New York City. 

CALVIN HENRY MORSE, 

The son of Samuel and Olive G. Morse, was born at 
Ware, Mass., September 13, i860. He was fitted for 
college at the Amherst High School. The period from 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 4I 

graduation until March, 1884, he spent in the mountains 
of Colorado and in Denver. From the latter date until 
September, 1884, he passed the time in the valleys of the 
North Platte, Mobraza and Cheyenne Rivers, in Wyom- 
ing, Nebraska and Dakota. During this time he was en- 
gaged in the cattle business. Returning to Massachusetts 
he accepted a position in the office of The George H. 
Gilbert Manufacturing Co. at Ware, which position he 
held for a year and a half. Since that time he has lived 
in Colorado, and has been engaged in the business of 
hotel keeper and manager, having been connected with 
the Windsor and the Metropole of Denver, the Jerome of 
Aspen, and the Vendome of Leadville, Colorado. He was 
married November 14, 1889, to Adelaide, daughter of 
John Sanderson, of Athens-on-Hudson, New York, and 
has two children: 

Josephine Olive, born September 3, 1890; 

Carl Gantley, born September 10, 1892. 

Address: Vendome Hotel, Leadville, Colorado. 



HENRY CLARK NASH, Jr., 

The son of Henry Clark and Emeline (Kellogg) Nash, 
was born at Amherst, Mass., October i, i860. He was 
fitted for college at the Mount Pleasant Institute, 
Amherst. The first year after graduation he spent in the 
office of Nash & Bro., manufacturers of agricultural 
implements, Millington, N. J., as corresponding clerk. 
September i, 1884, he entered the law office of Dickinson 
& Cooper, at Amherst, as a student of law. He was 
admitted to the Hampshire County Bar, March 2, 1887, 



42 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

and opened an office in Amherst on June i of the same 
year. He now has offices in both Amherst and North- 
ampton. He has received the degree of M. A. (in course) 
from Amherst. He was married October i, 1888, to 

Grace Lillian, daughter of and Owen, of 

Amherst, Mass., and has had three children: 

Henry Clark, 3rd, born April 7, 1889; 

Raymond Owen, born April 7, 1890; died April 7, 
1892; 

Willard Owen, born August 4, 1892. 

Address: Amherst^ Mass. 

WILLIAM KELLOGG NASH, 

The son of Henry Clark and Emeline (Kellogg) 
Nash, was born April 4, 1862, at Amherst, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Mount Pleasant Institute, 
Amherst. Ever since graduation he has been principal 
of, and a teacher in. Mount Pleasant Institute at Amherst, 
a school in which his father and grandfather taught 
before him. He has received the degree of M. A. (in 
course) from Amherst. He is unmarried. 

Address: Amherst, Mass. 

HORATIO BANNISTER NEWELL, 

The son of Rev. Wellington and Amanda (Frost) 
Newell, was born August 27, 1861, at East Orrington, 
Maine. He fitted for college at Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton, Mass. He spent his first year after gradu- 
ation teaching in the Academy at Mechanicville, N. Y., 
and at the close of the year left the school to enter the 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 43 

Chicago Theological Seminary, from which he graduated, 
receiving the degree of B. D., in the spring of 1887. He 
was at once accepted as a missionary of the A. B. C. F. 
M., and began work in North Japan in the fall of 1887. 
The first three months after his arrival on the field was 
spent in teaching in the school at Niigata, after which he 
went to Nagaoka, where he "held the fort" for three 
years. He is now stationed at Niigata. He was married 
July 3, 1889, to Jennie, daughter of Justus L. and Orten- 
sia W. Cozad, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has one child : 

Florence Cozad, born November 7, 1890. 

Address: Ohata'-dori, Niigata, Japan. 

CLARENCE LINCOLN NICHOLS, 

The son of Ziba Bass and Emily (Porter) Nichols, 
was born January 3, 1861, at Waterford, Minn. He was 
fitted for college at the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. 
In the fall following graduation, he entered upon the 
study of medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College at 
Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1885. He com- 
menced the practice of medicine at Walla- Walla, Wash- 
ington, but soon removed to Portland, Oregon, where he 
entered into practice with his father. Since that date he 
has spent some time abroad in the study of surgery. He 
is unmarried. 

Address: Portland, Ore. 

ALEXANDER DANA NOYES, 

The son of Chas. H. and Jane (Dana) Noyes, was 
born December 14, 1862, at Montclair, N. J. He was 



44 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

fitted for college at the Montclair High School. After 
graduation he entered at once upon the work of a jour- 
nalist. For part of the first year he was on the staff 
of the New York Tribune as a reporter. In May, 1884, 
he changed to the Commercial Advertiser^ of which he was 
made financial editor in the spring of 1886. He remained 
with this paper until June, 1891, when he became a mem- 
ber of the editorial staff of the New York Evening Fost^ 
which position he still holds. He has written more or 
less regularly for the New York Coj?t?nercial Bulletin^ 
Christian Union^ Harper's Weekly^ Boston Commercial 
Bulletin and Youth's Companion, He has received the 
degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. He is un- 
married. 

Address: Editorial Rooms, Eveni?ig Post, New York 
City. 

WILLIAM ORR, Jr., 

The son of William and Catherine Orr, was born 
November 16, i860, at Philadelphia, Penn. He was 
fitted for college at the Springfield (Mass.) High School. 
After graduation he became principal of the Hopkins' 
Academy, Hadley, Mass. During part of the year he 
was kept from his work by illness. He remained at 
Hadley until the spring of 1885, when he resigned to 
accept the principalship of Smith Academy at Hatfield, 
where he remained for three years. In the summer of 
1887 he spent several months abroad in travel. In the 
fall of 1888 he became instructor in science at the high 
school at Springfield, Mass., which position he still holds. 
Since 1890 he has also been instructor in science in the 
French Protestant College of Springfield. He has received 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 45 

the degree of M. A., (in course) from Amherst. He is 
President of the Amherst Alumni Association of the Con- 
necticut Valley, having been recently elected. He was 
married August 7, 1889, to Charlotte Evelyn, daughter of 
Isaac and Theresa (Byrnes) Pettis, of Springfield, Mass., 
and has one child: 

Alan Gardner, born July 15, 1890. 

Address: No. 133 Catharine St. Springfield, Mass. 

WILLIAM BARRY OWEN, 

The son of Leander C. and Jane G. Owen, was born 
April 15, i860, at Vineyard Haven, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. 
For a year after graduation he was unable to do any work 
on account of spinal trouble. Having fully recovered his 
health, he entered the Boston University Law School in 
October, 1884, and completed the three years' course in 
two years, taking the degree of LL.B., June 2, 1886. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar the following 
month. He then went to Washington, D. C, and studied 
patent law in the office of Richard K. Evans, remaining 
there until January i, 1887, when he returned to Boston 
and commenced the practice of law. In addition to his 
law practice he is President of the West Chop Steamboat 
Co., Secretary of the Vineyard Haven Water Co. and 
Treasurer of the A. M. McPhail Piano Co. He was 
married February 22, 1887, to May M., daughter of John 
F. and Abby B. Robinson, of Vineyard Haven, Mass., 
and has one child: 

Paul, born October 27, 1891. 

Address: No. 520 Harrison Ave., Boston, Mass. 



46 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

EDWARD SMITH PARSONS, 

The son of Charles Henry and Esther (Smith) Par- 
sons, was born August 9, 1863, at Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
was fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and 
Polytechnic Institute. He spent the year after gradua- 
tion at home, studying at the Columbia School of Political 
Science from October 3, 1883, until the following April, 
when, on account of his father's ill health, he entered his 
office, 80 Water Street, New York City, and remained 
there until July 28. In September, 1884, he entered Yale 
Divinity School, where he graduated with the degree of 
B. D., in May, 1887. The summer of 1885 he spent at 
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson in New York in literary work for 
the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, and the following summer 
travelled for two months in Europe. The summer after 
graduation from the Divinity School, he supplied the 
Congregational Church of Platteville, Col., and returned 
in September to enter upon a year of post-graduate study 
at the Yale Divinity School. July 8, 1888, he became 
pastor of the First Congregational Church of Greeley, 
Col. He remained in this position for four years, resign- 
ing in July, 1892, to accept the Professorship of English 
in Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Col., which posi- 
tion he still holds. He has received the degree of M. A. 
(in course) from Amherst. He was married December 4, 
1889, to Mary Augusta, daughter of George Lyman and 
Kate (Talcott) Ingersoll, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has two 
children: 

Esther, born October 29, 1890; 

Charles Edwards, born February 29, 1892. 

Address: Colorado Springs, Col. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 47 

CORNELIUS HOWARD PATTON, 

The son of the Rev. Dr. William Weston and Mary 
(Smith) Patton, was born December 25, i860, at Chicago, 
111. He was fitted for college at the Chicago High School, 
the preparatory department of Howard University, and 
Emerson Institute, Washington, D. C. In the fall after 
graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, where he 
spent three years in study, receiving the degree of B. D. 
in May, 1886. He supplied churches in Vermont and in 
Washington for several months after receiving his theo- 
logical degree, and in February, 1887, became pastor of 
the Congregational Church at Westfield, N. J., eighteen 
miles from New York City, which position he still holds. 
He has published several sermons, and a memorial volume 
entitled " Honor Thy Father. " He is Secretary of the 
Congregational Association of New Jersey, and a trustee 
of Howard University, Washington, D. C. He spent 
several months in the summer of '91 in travelling abroad. 
He was married June 5, 1889, to Pauline, daughter of 
Rev. Eliphalet and Augusta (Patten) Whittlesey, of 
Washington, D. C, and has one child: 

Augusta, born July 17, 1893. 

Address: Westfield, Union County, N. J. 

WILLIAM LOCKWOOD PEET, 

Peet fitted for college at Newport, R. I., but the 
editor has secured no facts concerning his age and 
parents. During the winter of 1883-4 he managed a 
store at Portland, Ore., but early in the spring he 
went into gold mining. In July, 1885, he was burned 



48 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

out, losing all his mining property. During the fall 
of 1885 he acted as newspaper correspondent in San 
Francisco, Cal, and in January, 1886, started a building 
and engineering paper. The Contractor^ of which he was 
editor and part owner. He has continued in the same 
business ever since. The paper has changed its name, 
and is now known as The Pacific Lwnberman^ Contractor 
and Electrician. He is unmarried. 

Address: Care Pacific Lumberman^ Contractor and 
Electricia7i^ 10 California St., San Francisco, Cal. 

BENJAMIN W. PENNOCK, 

The son of E. M. and Louise (Dunklee) Pennock, 
was born at Rutland, Vermont, May i, 1854. He was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. In 
the fall after graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, 
but left New Haven in the middle of the year on account 
of poor health and finished the year at Andover. He 
took the Middle year (1884-5) ^.t Yale and the Senior 
year (1885-6) at Andover, where he graduated. In June, 

1886, he became pastor of the Congregational Church at 
Coleraine, Mass., where he remained until November, 

1887. After leaving Coleraine he went to Boston, where 
he lived during the following winter, and April i, 1888, 
he accepted a call to the Unitarian Church at Ware, 
Mass., where he remained for three years. He was with- 
out a charge from April, 1891, to April, 1892, when he 
became pastor of the Congregational Church at Troy, N. 
H. , in which work he is still engaged, having his home at 
Wakefield, N. H. He was married September i, 1886, to 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 49 

Minnie H., daughter of William E. and Sarah (Hyde) 
Smith, of Amherst, Mass., and has one child: 

Grace Lavinia, born December 25, 1890. 

Address: Wakefield, New Hampshire. 

CHARLES HENRY PRATT, 

The son of George E. and Lucy J. Pratt, was born 
March 30, i860, at Princeton, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. In 
October, 1883, he went to a sheep ranch on the Rio Pecos 
in Texas, and spent the winter in hunting, fishing, riding and 
and learning the Mexican language. The next spring he 
became a partner in the firm since known as Wilkins 
Bros. & Co., and has ever since been engaged in the 
raising of sheep and cattle. The out-of-door life has 
been of great advantage to his health, which is now very 
vigorous. He is unmarried. 

Address: Langtry, Val Verde County, Texas. 

ALEXANDER RAE, 

The son of William N. and Jane Rae, was born 
November 23, 1858, at Brooklyn, N. Y. He was fitted 
for college at the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y. In 
September following graduation he entered the Long 
Island Medical College, and in June, 1885, graduated 
from the institution, receiving the degree of M. D. and 
an appointment on the resident staff of the Long Island 
College Hospital, where he served until June, 1886. In 
May, 1886, he received the appointment as Assistant to 
the Professor of Anatomy in the Long Island Medical 
College, which position he still holds. He is also Assist- 



50 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

ant Surgeon in the Long Island Hospital and in the Kings 
County Hospital, and is Inspector of the Department of 
Health of the City of Brooklyn. In addition to these 
duties he is practicing medicine. He is unmarried. 
Address: No. 117 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HENRY THOMAS RAINEY, 

The son of John and Kate (Thomas) Rainey, was 
born August 20, i860, at Carrollton, 111. He was fitted 
for college at Knox Academy, Galesburg, 111. In the fall 
following graduation he entered the Union College of 
Law, Chicago. He engaged actively in politics during 
the summer and fall of '84, stumping the State of Illinois 
for Cleveland and Hendricks. After the campaign he 
went back to his law work, and at the same time entered 
the law office of William E. Furness, Chicago. He gradu 
ated from the law school with the degree of LL. B. in the 
summer of 1885. He was admitted to practice in the 
State of Illinois a few days before graduation, and has 
since practiced law at Carrollton, 111. He has been 
Master in Chancery for the past six years. He has re- 
ceived the degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. He 
was married June 27, 1888, to Ella, daughter of W. M. 
and Mary (Allen) McBride, of Harvard, Neb. 

Address: Carrollton, 111. 

BENJAMIN RUSH RHEES, 

The son of John Evans and Annie (McCutchen) 
Rhees, was born at Chicago, 111., February 8, i860. He 
was fitted for college at the Plainfield (N. J.) High 
School. He spent the first two years after graduation as 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 5I 

Walker instructor in mathematics at Amherst. In Sep- 
tember, 1885, he entered the Hartford Theological 
Seminary, from which he graduated in 1888. The 
year following he spent at Plainfield, N. J., and in 
1889 became pastor of the Middle St. Baptist Church at 
Portsmouth, N. H., where he remained for three years, 
resigning a year ago to accept the associate professorship 
of New Testament Interpretation in the Newton Theo- 
logical Institution, Newton Center, Mass. He sailed for 
Europe May 12, 1893, for five months of travel and 
study. He is unmarried. 

Address: Newton Center, Mass. 

CHARLES EDWARD ROUNDS, 

The son of John C. and Louise D. Rounds, was born 
September 8, 1859, at Maiden, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at the Maiden High School. The first year 
after graduation he spent in Boston as a stenographer in 
the ofiice of L. C. Chase & Co. In September, 1884, he 
located at Fargo, Dakota, in the office of the Northern 
Pacific Elevator Co., where he remained for two years, 
removing with the office of the company to Minneapolis 
in September, 1886. He was married May 9, 1888, to 
Celia Laren, daughter of E. B. and Julia A. Ellsworth, of 
Minneapolis, Minn., and has two children: 

Louise Ellsworth, born February 20, 1889; 

Charles Knapp, born May 20, 1890. 

Address: Northern Pacific Elevator Co., Corn Ex- 
change, Minneapolis, Minn. 



52 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG, 

The son of Prentice Mason and Cynthia (Ross) Rugg, 
was born August 20, 1862, at Sterling, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Lancaster (Mass.) High School. 
The three years following graduation were spent at the 
Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 
June, 1886, receiving the degree of LL.B., and represent- 
ing the graduating class at commencement as orator. He 
was also librarian of the law school during the last year of 
his course. He became a member of the Suffolk County 
Bar in July, 1886, and in the fall of the same year became 
associated with John R. Thayer, one of the leading 
attorneys of Worcester, Mass. At the commencement of 
the second year of law practice he was admitted to part- 
nership with Mr. Thayer. He was a member of the 
Worcester School Committee from 1886 to 1890, and has 
twice been a trustee of the public library in Sterling, 
Mass. He was married April 10, 1889, to Florence May, 
daughter of Charles and Esther J. J. Belcher, of Wor- 
cester, and has one child: 

Charles Belcher, born January 20, 1890. 

Address: No. 405 Main St. (office), or 271 Pleasant 
St. (residence), Worcester, Mass. 

GEORGE RUGG, 

The son of Charles P. and Mary P. Rugg, was born 
July 2, 1862, at Rochester, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at the New Bedford (Mass.) High School. In the 
fall of 1883 he became principal of the Classical School 
at Milford, Del., where he remained for two years. Late 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 53 

in the fall of 1885 he was elected principal of the 
Thompson Street Grammar School in New Bedford, Mass., 
where he remained for three years, going thence to 
Brattleboro, Vermont, to engage in the same work, and 
remaining there until July, 1890. The following year he 
spent at Ipswich, Mass., and in September, 1891, removed 
to Grafton, Mass., where he is still engaged in the same 
work which has occupied him since graduation, being now 
principal of the Grafton High School. He has been a 
trustee of the public library in both Ipswich and Grafton. 
He was married July 20, 1887, to Grace Agnes, daughter 
of Charles M. and Sarah R. Rogers, of Brockton, Mass., 
and has two children: 

Gertrude Rogers, born September 18, 1888; 

Charles Parks, 2d, born July 13, 1891. 

Address: Grafton, Mass. 

EDWARD EMERSON SABEN, 

The son of Emerson O. and Angelia May Saben, was 
born November 3, 1861, at Somerville, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Somerville High School. The 
first year after graduation he was in the employ of the 
Boston Custom House; then, in his own language, *'he 
left this world and took up his abode at St. Albans, Ver- 
mont. " He returned to Boston January i, 1885, and in a 
few weeks secured a position in the office of the Dennison 
Manufacturing Co., where he has since remained. He is 
unmarried. 

Address: No. 26 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 



54 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

OLIVER CHEEVER SEMPLE, 

The son of Amzi Chapin and Mary H. Semple, was 
born at Bennington, Vermont, July. 29, 1861. He was 
fitted for college at the Lowell (Mass.) High School. He 
was elected at graduation master of the Mann Grammar 
School at Lowell, and retained the position during 1883 
and 1884. The next year he was transferred to the Paw- 
tucket Grammar School in the same city, and remained 
there during 1 884-1 885. He resigned his position in the 
summer of 1885 and entered the Columbia Law School in 
the fall, where he spent one year. He then moved his 
residence to Minneapolis, Minn., where he entered the 
office of Hon. M. B. Koon, at 350 Temple Court Building. 
He became a law partner with Mr. Koon, under the firm 
name of Koon & Semple. He withdrew from the firm in 
May, 1889, since which time he has been in law practice 
on his own account in Minneapolis and New York City. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 48 Wall St., New York City. 

HENRY AUSTIN SIMONDS, 
The son of Albert G. and Sarah Simonds, was born 
April 9, 1861, at Athol, Mass. He was fitted for college 
at the same place. In September following graduation 
he accepted a call to teach Latin, Greek and English 
literature in Carleton Institute, Farmington, Mo. In 
May, 1885, he was elected vice-president of the institu- 
tion. He remained in this position for two years 
and in May, 1887, accepted the department of Latin, 
Greek and German in Nebraska Central College, where he 
remained for one year. The two following years he was 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE 55 

high school principal and superintendent of city schools 
at Allegan, Mich., and for the last three years has held 
the same positions at Stevens Point, Wis. He has 
received the degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst 
He was married June i8, 1884, to Elizabeth Goodnough, 
daughter of Edward A. and Ellen S. Goodnough, of 
Green Bay, Wis., and has four children: 

Albert Goodnough, born May 16, 1885; 

William Adams, born September 19, 1887; 

Alice Frances, born December 4, 1889; 

Elizabeth Sarah, born November 24, 1892. 

Address : Stevens Point, Wis. 

HENRY AUGUSTUS SMITH, 

The son of A. M. and Mary (Howe) Smith, was born 
July 5, i860, at Oswego, N. Y. He says he cannot say 
where he was fitted for college ; he studied in a half 
dozen places. His first year after graduation was spent 
at Shelburne Falls, Mass., in engraving. July, 1884, he 
removed his residence to New York, where he has been 
connected ever since with Francis Lathrop as a designer. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 6^ Washington Square, South, New 
York City. 

ISAAC FINNEY SMITH, 

The son of David D. and Betsey D. Smith, was born 
July 6, i860, at North Truro, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at the Provincetown (Mass.) High School. He 
has been teaching ever since graduation, having spent the 
first two years at Poughkeepsie, and the third year at 



56 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Fort Bowie, Ariz., as instructor to the sons of the com- 
manding officer. Since that time he has resided almost 
continuously in or near New York City, where he has 
been engaged in private tutoring and teaching in private 
schools. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 41 West i8th St., New York City, or 
Provincetown, Mass. 

OSGOOD SMITH, 

The son of Manasseh H. and Mary (Dole) Smith, 
was born July 15, 1863, at Portland, Maine. He was 
fitted for college at the Portland High School. In the 
summer of 'S^ he studied German, Greek and Latin at 
the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, and from 
September of the same year until June, 1885, taught 
these languages in the high school at Princeton, 111. He 
then entered upon the study of law in the office of Symonds 
& Libby, Portland, Maine, and soon after entered the 
Harvard Law School, where he graduated in the class of 
'89, receiving the degree of LL. B. He has also received 
the degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. Since 
his graduation he has practiced law in New York City, 
and is now a member of the firm of Kip & Smith, with 
offices in the Mills Building. He is a member of several 
prominent New York Clubs. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 15 Broad St., New York City. 

WILLIAM BRADFORD SPROUT, 

The son of Bradford E. and Lucia (Train) Sprout, 
was born July 10, 1859, at Worcester, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at the Worcester High School. After 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 57 

graduation he studied law and was admitted to the bar 
early in 1885. He remained in Worcester in the practice 
of law until 1890, when he removed to Boston, and has 
ever since been attorney for the West End Street Railway 
Company of Boston. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives for two years (1889 
and 1890). He was married in May, 1885, to Nellie L. , 
daughter of Hiram L. and Luthera Fisk, of Sterling, 111., 
and has one child: 

Ethelwin C, born January 30, 1889. 

Mrs Sprout died July 17, 1892. 

Address: No. 81 Milk St., Boston, Mass. 

HENRY DOWS STEBBINS, 

The son of Charles and Mary (Dows) Stebbins, was 
born September 10, i860, at Cazenovia, N. Y. He was 
fitted for college at the St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y., 
and Cazenovia Seminary. In October, 1883, he became 
a tutor in the family of John M. Parker, New Orleans, 
La. The fall of 1884 he spent in a western trip 
which occupied him several months, and during which 
he visited the principal western States, going as far 
as the Pacific. He returned east in September, 1885, 
and the following month entered on a three years' course 
in the study of theology at the Berkley Divinity School at 
Middletown, Conn. As a deacon he served the parish of 
St. Paul's at Holland Patent, N. Y., from June, 1888, 
until May, 1889, when he was ordained presbyter, and 
since that time has been in charge of Emmanuel parish, 
Norwich, N. Y. He was married July 8, 1891, to May 



58 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

D,, daughter of Cyrus B. and Vernette (Maydole) Martin, 
of Norwich, N. Y., and has one child: 

Vernette Maydole, born February 23, 1893. 

Address: "The Rectory," Norwich, N. Y. 

FRED WILLIAM STICKNEY, 

The son of Charles and Julia G. Stickney, was born 
September 23, i860, at Groveland, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Haverhill (Mass.) High School. In the 
fall of 1883 he went to work in his father's shoe manu- 
factory in Groveland, Mass. The business was moved 
west to Fond-du-lac, Wis., in the spring of '84, and he 
went with it. In a short time the factory came into the 
hands of C. M. Henderson & Co. of Chicago, 111., and he 
continued in their employ until June i, 189 1, when he re- 
moved his residence to Groveland, Mass. Since that 
time he has not been engaged in any regular occupation. 
He is unmarried. 

Address: Groveland, Mass. 

WILLIAM Z. STUART, 

The son of William Z. and Sarah (Benedict) Stuart, 
was born September 27, 1861, at Logansport, Ind. He 
was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, 
Mass. After graduation he went into the ofiice of J. A. 
Kimberley & Co., millers, at Neenah, Wis., as book- 
keeper. He was with them for a year when the flour mill 
was changed into a paper mill, having been sold to the 
Kimberley & Clark Co. He has been connected with 
this company ever since, and also with several companies 
allied to it, the Telulah Paper Co., Shattuck and Babcock 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 59 

Co., Little Chute Pulp Co., Atlas Paper Co. He is 
salesman and an official in all these companies and general 
assistant to their president, J. A. Kimberley. He was 
married December 25, 1889, to Helen Cheney, daughter 
of J. A. and Helen (Cheney) Kimberley, of Neenah, Wis., 
and has had one child, which was born January i, 1893, 
and died the same day. 

Address: Neenah, Wis. 

GEORGE MASON TROWBRIDGE, 

The son of Rev. James H. and Alice (Mason) Trow- 
bridge, was born October 16, 1861, at Dubuque, Iowa. 
He was fitted for college at Lake Forest (111.) Academy, 
and University School, Chicago. For two years after 
graduation he studied law at the Union College of Law, 
Chicago, from which he received the degree of LL. B. 
He has practiced law at Chicago ever since, residing at 
Riverside, 111., until April, 1887, and in Chicago since 
that time. He is unmarried. 

Address: 94 Washington St., (office), or 27 Delaware 
Place, (residence), Chicago, 111. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS TUTTLE, 

The son of Wooster Henry and Margaret (Helmsing) 
Tuttle, was born November 27, 1862, at Hadley, Mass. 
He was fitted for college at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, 
Mass. After leaving college he taught in the high school 
at Ware, Mass., until June, 1884. In the following 
August he sailed for Europe, and entered upon the study 
of history and political economy at Heidelberg, where he 



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remained from August, 1884, to August, 1886. He has 
received the degree of M. A. from Amherst, and Ph. D, 
from the University of Heidelberg. In September, 1886, 
he became instructor in political economy at Amherst 
College, which position he held until May, 1892, when he 
became associate professor of political economy and inter- 
national law in the same institution. He has accepted a 
professorship in the same subjects at Wabash University, 
Crawfordsville, Ind., and enters upon his duties therein 
September. He is the author of "The Wealth Concept, a 
Study in Economic Theory," published by the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia. 
He has been a trustee in Hopkins Academy, Hadley, 
Mass., since 1890. He was married January 6, 1891, to 
Affa Sophia, daughter of Dr. David Worthington and 
Mary (Warner) Miner, of Ware, Mass., and has one child: 

Miner Worthington, born March 31, 1893. 

Address: Crawfordsville, Indiana. 

GEORGE ALBERT TUTTLE, 

The son of Wooster Henry and Margaret (Helmsing) 
Tuttle, was born at Hadley, Mass., December 2, 1859. 
He was fitted for college at the Amherst High School. 
For a year after graduation he studied medicine in the 
office of Dr. L. M. Tuttle, at Holyoke, Mass. October 
I, 1884, he continued the same study at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he 
graduated with the degree of M. D., May 13, 1886. He 
was surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, from 
1886 until 1888, when he became instructor in histology, 
pathology and bacteriology, in the New York Polyclinic 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 6 1 

School for Graduates, where he remained for four years. 
He has been assistant pathologist at the Presbyterian 
Hospital since 1890. He is also practicing medicine in 
New York City. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 236 West 44th St., New York City. 

WILLISTON WALKER, 

The son of Rev. Dr. George Leon and Mary (Willis- 
ton) Walker, was born July i, i860, at Portland, Me. He 
was fitted for college at Brattleboro, Vt. After graduation 
he spent three years in the study of theology at Hartford 
Theological Seminary, where he graduated in the spring 
of '86. In June of the same year he sailed for Europe, 
and in October entered the University of Leipzig, where 
he remained for two years, receiving the degree of Ph. 
D. from that university in 1888. During 1888-9 he was as- 
sociate professor of history at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn 
Mawr, Pa. From 1889 to '91 he was associate professor of 
mediaeval and modern history at Hartford Theological 
Seminary, and in 1891 he became Waldo professor of 
Germanic and Western Church history in the same insti- 
tution. He has been a frequent contributor to newspapers 
and reviews, and has written a number of papers for the 
American Society of Church History, among them the 
following: "The * Heads of Agreement ' and The Union 
of Congregationalists and Presbyterians, based on them 
in London, 1691 "; '' The Influence of the Mathers in the 
Religious Development of New England." He has at 
present in press (Charles Scribner's Sons) a work of about 
six hundred pages on "The Creeds and Platform of Congre- 
gregationalism." He has also been appointed by the 



62 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

American Society of Church History to write the history 
of American Congregationalism in a series of denomi- 
national histories, to be published under the auspices of 
that society. He was married June i, 1886, to Alice, 
daughter of Professor Richard Henry and Elizabeth (Car- 
michael) Mather, of Amherst, Mass. 

Address: No. 46 Prospect St., Hartford, Conn. 



CLARENCE E. WARD 



Has not responded to any letters. He has resided at 
Riverton, Conn., most of the time since graduation. He 
was for a time employed by the Bureau of Education of 
Connecticut. He ran for Representative to the Connecti- 
cut Legislature in 1887. He studied law at the Albany 
Law School in 1892-3. 

Address: Riverton, Conn. 

FRANK DALE WARREN, 

The son of Alfred Bennett and Susan (Smith) War- 
ren, was born May 3, i860, at Boston, Mass. He was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 
He has been engaged in the paper business ever since 
graduation. From 1883 to 1886 he was connected with 
the Fairchild Paper Co., of Boston and Pepperell, Mass., 
residing in Boston during 'S^ and '84, and at Pepperell 
from '84 to '87. During the last of these years he was 
connected with the Champion Card and Paper Co. of 
Pepperell. Since May, 1887, he has been with W. C. 
Clarke, in the same business in New York City, residing 
in Brooklyn from '87 to '90, and since the latter date at 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 63 

Fanwood, N. J. He was married June 19, 1889, to 
Louise, daughter of Henry G. and Ariadne (Jefferson) 
Taft, Uxbridge, Mass. 

Address: No. 279 Stewart Building, New York City. 

CHARLES HENRY WASHBURN, 

The son of G. Henry and Fanny (Whitney) Wash- 
burn, was born at Auburndale, Mass., December 9, i860. 
He was fitted for college at the Melrose (Mass.) High 
School. In the September following graduation he 
entered Andover Theological Seminary, but remained 
there only four months. During the year 1884 he was 
pastor of the Western Avenue Union Chapel, of Boston, 
Mass. January, 1885, he was called to the Congre- 
gational Church in Saugus, Mass., and after eleven months 
of service was called to the Congregational Church in 
Berlin, Mass., where he remained for three years. For 
the three years following ('88-'9o) he supplied the Con- 
gregational Churches of Woburn and Burlington, Mass. 
October, 1890, he was installed pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church at Falmouth, Mass., which position he still 
holds. He was married April 22, 1886, to Louise Went- 
worth daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Almy Chaffin, 
and has four children : 

Ruth Emery, born March 25, 1887; 

Almy Dwight, born November, i, 1888; 

Ralph Seelye, born August 25, 1890; 

Lawrence Gould, born February 23, 1893. 

Address: Falmouth, Mass. 



64 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

ELBRIDGE JOHN WHITAKER, 

The son of Lewis R. and IsabgUe E. Whitaker, was 
born at Wabonsa, Kansas, November 11, 1859. He was 
fitted for college at Franklin, Mass. Immediately after 
graduation he secured a position in a store in Charleston, 
Mass., but he quickly tired of business, and accepted a 
position as head of the Sheldonville Grammar School in 
Wrentham, Mass., where he remained for two years, until 
a vacancy occurred in the principalship of the high school, 
when he was transferred to that position. He resigned 
that position December 26, 1892, and is at present study- 
ing law in the office of Fales & Mellen, in Boston. He 
is unmarried. 

Address: 27 Tremont Row, Room 5, Boston, Mass., 
(office), or Wrentham, Mass., (residence). 



CHARLES TRISTRAM CHASE WHITCOMB, 

The son of John G. and Mary J. Whitcomb, was 
born July i, 1861, at Thomaston, Maine. He was fitted 
for college by a private tutor, and at the Provinceton 
(Mass.) High School. The first year after graduation he 
was principal of the grammar school in Sandwich, Mass. 
In the fall of 1884 he became principal of the high school 
in the same place, in which position he remained until 
1888, when he became principal of the Wakefield (Mass.) 
High School, which position he still holds. He has 
received the degree of M. A. (in course) from Amherst. 
He was married July 10, 1889, to Charlotte Chaponile, 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 65 

daughter of Charles H. and Ellen (Gray) Waterman, of 
New York City, and has one child : 

Rachel Gray, born June 3, 1891. 

Address: Wakefield, Mass. 

CHARLES TERRILL WHITTLESEY, 

The son of Deming and Huldah M. Whittlesey, was 
born September 21, 1858, at Roxbury, Conn. He was 
fitted for college at Parker Academy, Woodbury, Conn., 
and also at a select school in Roxbury, Conn The first 
year after graduation he taught in the South Berkshire 
Institute, New Marlboro, Mass., as first assistant. Sept- 
ember, 1884, he entered the Yale Divinity School, from 
which he graduated in 1887, receiving the degree of B. D. 
In the next month he took charge of the Congregational 
Church of Carrington, N. D., where he remained a little 
over a year and then accepted a call to the Plymouth 
Congregational Church of Portland, Ore., where he 
remained for three years, leaving it December i, 1891, to 
accept the pastorate of the First Congregational Church 
of Pendleton, Ore., which position he still holds. He was 
married May 27, 1890, to Penelope R,, daughter of 
Edward H. and Penelope J. Skinner, of Rockford, III., 
and has one child : 

LuDELLA Miriam, born April 24, 1891. 

Address: Pendleton, Ore. 




SUPPLEMENTARY RECORD 

JAMES WHITE ALLEN, 

The son of Benjamin Dwight and Eliza (White) 
Allen, was born October i, i860, at Worcester, Mass. 
He was fitted for college at the Worcester High School. 
He left college at the end of the Sophomore year, and in 
November, 1881, began work for the Worcester Evening 
Gazette^ with which paper he continued as book-keeper 
and cashier until July i, 1892. Since that time he has 
been clerk with Arnold, Cheney & Co., of New York City, 
and is at present representing the firm in Zanzibar, 
Africa. He is unmarried. 

Address: Care Arnold, Cheney & Co., Zanzibar, 
Africa, or care B. D. Allen, Willard Terrace, Worcester, 
Mass. 

WILLIAM C. ATWATER, 

The son of John H. and Jane B. Atwater, was born 
July 4, 1861, at Brooklyn,- N. Y. He was fitted for 
college at the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
left the Class of 'd>T, at the end of Freshman year on 



68 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

account of ill health, and, after remaining out of college 
one year, re-entered and graduated with '84. After 
graduation he entered a banking ofifice in New York City, 
remaining only a short time. He then became connected 
with the wrapping paper business, and in January, 1885, 
became a clerk with Van Vliet, Bostwick & Co., grain 
commission merchants in New York City, where he 
remained until June, 1886. From August, i886, to July, 
1887, he was connected as salesman with Haddock, 
Shonk & Co., of New York, miners and shippers of 
anthracite coal. From July, 1887, to October, 1889, he 
was New England agent of the company, having his resi- 
dence at Boston; and November i, 1889, the firm of 
William C. Atwater & Co., wholesale and retail coal 
dealers, was formed, having its headquarters at Fall 
River, Mass., where he has since resided. He was 
married May i, 1889, to Ida W. , daughter of Jacob and 
Annie Hay, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and has one child: 

William C, Jr., born July 18, 1890. 

Address: Fall River, Mass. 

CONRAD MYRON BARDWELL, 

The son of George W. and Annie (Hussey) Bardwell, 
was born October 9, i860, at South Deerfield, Mass. He 
was fitted for college at the Northampton (Mass.) High 
School. After leaving college, in 1881, he taught for two 
years at Haydenville, Mass., and in 1883 he went to 
Washington Heights, a suburb of Chicago, and taught 
there until the following March, when he was elected 
principal of the Marengo Public School, Marengo, 111., 
where he remained for three years. From 1886 to 1890 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 69 

he was superintendent of schools at Tipton, Iowa, and 
since 1890 he has held the same position at Canton, III. 
He was married June 17, 1886, to Annie Louise, daughter 
of Alvin and Sally (Vaile) Woleben, and has two children: 

Robert Cousins, born January i, 1888; 

Richard Woleben, born May 14, 1889. 

Address: Canton, 111. 

EVERETT NEXSEN BLANKE, 

The son of George C. and Florence (Nexsen) Blanke, 
was born August 29, 1861, at Brooklyn, N. Y. He was 
fitted for college at the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He left Amherst at the beginning of the second 
term, Sophomore year, and in January, 1881, went to 
Chicago and became employed with Phelps, Dodge & 
Palmer, wholesale boots and shoes. He remained with 
this firm only a short time, and on leaving it was engaged 
for a few weeks in the wholesale paper business. In 
April, 188 1, he entered upon the work of a journalist with 
the first issue of the Chicago Mornmg News. Six months 
later he went to the Inter-0cea7i^ and in another six 
months he became telegraphic editor of the Herald. In 
June, 1883, he became assistant agent for the United 
Press, and about July, 1884, he was promoted to the 
New York office, where he remained for four months. He 
then became connected with the Morning Journal of New 
York City. He has at various times been connected also 
with the New York Herald^ the Brooklyn Eagle and the 
New York Evening Post^ and is now in the employ of T. 
B. Browne's Advertising Agency. He is unmarried. 

Address. Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



70 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

THOMAS COCHRAN, 

The son of David H. and Harriet (Rawson) Cochran, 
was born May i, 1861, at Albany, N. Y. He was fitted 
for college at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Collegiate and Poly- 
technic Institute. He left Amherst at the close of his 
Junior year, and taught in the Polytechnic Institute from 
1882 to 1888. For the next two years he was in the 
employ of Lazell, Dalley & Co., wholesale druggists, 
New York City, and from 1890 to 1893 was a member of 
the firm of Henry & Cochran, engaged in the same busi- 
ness. He is now in business without a partner. He was 
married February 23, 1893 to Emma Belle, daughter of 
John S.and Emma (Schirmer) Hendrickson, of Chicago, 111. 

Address: No. 164 Schemerhorn St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

GEORGE W. FOSTER, 

Cannot be found. No clue to his whereabouts has 
been discovered. 

CHARLES EDWIN FRENCH, 

The son of Charles and Ann A. French, was born at 
Cleveland, Ohio, May 2, 1859. He was fitted for college 
at the Cleveland High School. He spent the Freshman 
year at Amherst, and the next year studied chemistry at 
the University of Michigan. From 1882 to 1887 he was 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Cleveland Carbon Co., and 
since that time has been in the real estate business for him- 
self. He was married November 12, 1885, to Mary, daughter 
of John and Movina M. Nevins, of Cleveland, Ohio. 

Address: No. 997 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE 7 I 

FRANK JUDSON GOODWIN, 

The son of Charles T. and Emily (Wyckoff) Good- 
win, was born March 19, 1862, at Rye, N. Y. He was 
fitted for college at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Collegiate 
and Polytechnic Institute. He left the class of '83, 
Amherst, at the end of the winter term, Freshman year, 
on account of ill health, and joined the class of '84 in 
the. following spring. After graduation he entered the 
Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated in the 
spring of 1888. October 10, of the same year, he became 
pastor of the Glenridge (N. J.) Congregational Church, 
which position he still holds. He was married November 
II, 1891, to Grace Haywood, daughter of Rev. Samuel 
W. and Harriet Duffield of Bloomfield, N. J. 

Adress: Glenridge, N. J. 

EDWARD BARTON HERRICK, 

The son of Rev. Wm. Dodge and Hortense (Barton) 
Herrick, was born August 9, i860, at Redding, Conn. 
He was fitted for college at Gushing Academy, Ashburn- 
ham, Mass., and Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. 
He left the class of '83 at the close of Freshman year, 
and began immediately the study of medicine under Dr. 
F. W. Russell, of Winchendon, Mass., with whom he re- 
mained until the fall of 1881, when he became a student 
in the medical department of the University of the City of 
New York from which he graduated in March, 1884. He 
then attended a course of lectures at the Post-Graduate 
Medical School of New York City. In August, 1885, he 
became resident physician of the New York City Asylum 



72 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

for the Insane on Ward's Island, which position he held 
until March, 1886. He then located at Ottawa, Kansas, 
where he practiced Medicine until November of the same 
year, when he returned to New York City and engaged in 
practice until June, 1887. He then became Assistant 
Medical Superintendent at Sanford Hall, (a private in- 
sane retreat). Flushing, L. I., where he remained three 
months. He then opened a private asylum for the treat- 
ment of nervous diseases at Amherst, Mass. He remained 
at Amherst two years, after which time he spent six 
months at Parker, Arizona, and two years at Tacoma, 
Wash., in government employ. Since January i, 1893, 
he has been practicing medicine in San Francisco. He 
was married November 25, 1883, to Emma Church Far- 
well, of Boston, Mass. 

Address: 308 Leavenworth St., San Francisco, Cal. 



TING LIANG HO 

Cannot be found. No clue to his whereabouts has 
been discovered. 



FRANK TUCKER HOPKINS, 

The son of Dr. Lewis S. and Frances (Washburn) 
Hopkins, was born at Northampton, Mass., September 8, 
1857. He was fitted for college at Saxton's River, Vt. 
After leaving Amherst he entered the College of Physic- 
ians and Surgeons, New York City, in the fall of 1882, 
and graduated in 1885 with the degree of M. D. He was 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 73 

a member of the surgical staff of Roosevelt Hospital, 
New York City, from 1885 to 1887. The year following 
he was House Physician of the New York Foundling Hos- 
pital. Since 1888 he has been engaged in the practice of 
medicine at Fishkill-on-Hudson. He is also attending 
surgeon to the Highland Hospital, Fishkill. He is un- 
married. 

Address: Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. 



GEORGE FRANK JEWETT, 

The son of Charles F. and Georgiana S. Jewett, was 
born March 19, 1857, at Pepperell, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Bridgewater (Mass.) Normal School. 
After leaving Amherst at the end of Freshman year, he 
taught in Straight University, New Orleans, La., from 
October, 1880, to June, 1882, and was principal of the 
high school at Lexington, Ky., from September, 1882, to 
June, 1884. He then entered Harvard College, and 
graduated in the class of '86. He taught chemistry in the 
Harvard Summer School during the summer of 1886, and 
was a teacher in the Cambridge (Mass.) High and Latin 
Schools during the following school year. In June, 1887, 
he was elected principal of the Marlboro (Mass.) High 
School, where he remained for two years. During 1889 
he was Headmaster of the Rutgers College Grammar 
School, in Brunswick, N. J. During 1890-91 he was 
principal of the Putnam (Conn.) High School, and since 
that time has been Headmaster of the Rayen School, 
Youngstown, Ohio. He was married June 8, 1882, to 
Abigail B., daughter of Nathan T. and Roxana (Wood- 



74 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

bridge) Fay, of Freeport, O., and has had three children: 
Eddie, born May 20, 1893, died July 3, 1883; 
Edith, born May 20, 1883; 
Helen, born November 7, 1889. 
Address: Youngstown, Ohio. 



ELIAS BLISS JONES, 

The son of Gurdon A. and Caroline F. Jones, was 
born at Norwich, Conn., January 15, 1863. He was fitted 
for college at the Norwich Free Academy. He left Am- 
herst at the end of his Freshman year, and in the follow- 
ing August secured a situation in the Second National 
Bank of Norwich, Conn., where he remained for more 
than two years. In November, 1882, he went to Boston 
to accept a position in the National Bank of Redemption, 
where he remained for four years, and then became con- 
nected with the State National Bank of Boston, where he 
has since remained. He was married January 23, 1887, 
to Belle, daughter of Dr. Julius and Ann E. Blodgett, of 
Newtonville, Mass., and has four children: 

Gurdon Blodgett, born May 10, 1888; 
Alister Ross, born January 9, 1890; 
Alden Bliss, born September 3, 1891; 
Pauline Fales, born June 7, 1893. 
Address: State National Bank, Boston, Mass. 

NATHANIEL HARRIS KIRBY, 

The son of Selim and Harriet Louise Kirby, was born 
at Nichols, N. Y., April 3, 1861. He was fitted for col- 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 75 

lege under a private tutor at Nichols, N. Y. After leav- 
ing Amherst he studied medicine and received the degree 
of M. D. He spent one year in service at the Chambers 
Street Hospital, New York City. At the expiration of 
his term, he accepted a position as surgeon on an Italian 
steamer. He remained four months in Italy travelling, 
and on his return to this country practiced medicine at 
Binghampton, N. Y. Later he removed to Saginaw, Mich., 
where he resided until *88, and then removed to Concord, 
Mass., where he has been practicing his profession ever 
since. He is also medical adviser to the local board of 
health. He is unmarried. 

Address : Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. 

WILLIAM DWIGHT KIRBY, 

The son of Selim and Harriet Louise Kirby, was 
born at Nichols, N. Y., March 24, 1859. He was fitted 
for college at Nichols, N. Y. April i, 1881, he became 
Assistant Cashier of the Home Savings Bank of Waverly, 
N.Y., where he remained until 1887. He then became the 
owner of a flour mill at Nichols, but in 1890 he was burned 
out. He became book-keeper for F. J. Hastings & Co., 
of Concord, Mass., which position he held for one year, 
and then accepted the same position with Baker Bros., of 
Nichols, with whom he is still employed. He was married 
June 3, 1890, to Eunice, daughter of Charles and Lizzie 
Dunham, of Nichols, N. Y., and has one child: 

Barbara, born April 30, 1891. 

Address: Nichols, Tioga County, N. Y. 



76 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

WILLIAM C. KITCHIN, 

The son of Benjamin and Elsie (Copeman) Kitchin, 
was born September 7, 1855, at St. George, Ont. He 
was fitted for college in the preparatory department of 
Oberlin College. He left Amherst at the close of the 
winter term, Freshman year, and entered Syracuse Uni- 
versity, from which he took his A. B. in 1882, August 
28, 1882, he sailed for Japan to engage in the missionary 
service of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the first 
three years in Japan he was principal of Cobleigh Semin- 
ary, Nagaski, keeping up his study meanwhile, and gain- 
ing the degrees of M. A and Ph.D. from Syracuse 
University. During 1885-1886 he was Professor of the 
English Language and Literature in the Keio-Gi-Jiku, a 
large Japanese College in Tokio. From 1886 to 1888 he 
held a similar chair in the Anglo-Japanese College, the 
Methodist Missionary College in Japan. He then returned 
to this country and made his home until 1892 at Cam- 
bridge, Mass. During 1890 and 1891 he was instructor 
in English and History at Boston University, and since 
that time has been professor of Comparative Literature 
in the University of Vermont. He has published a 
history of the English Language, four volumes of " Mas- 
ter-pieces of English Prose," annotated for Japanese 
students, and several works in the Japanese language, 
published by the Methodist Missionary Press of Tokio; 
**The Story of Sodom," and "Truth as Strange as 
Fiction," both published by Hunt & Easton of New York, 
besides many review articles, etc. He was married June 
23, 1882, to Fanny Carlotta, daughter of Samuel and 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 77 

Elizabeth (Hemans) Furbeck, of Collamer, N. Y., and 
has four children: 

Edith Carlotta, born July 28, 1883; 

Esmond Furbeck, born July 29, 1884; 

Howard William, born February 7, 1887; 

Bernard Lee, born June 27, 1891. 

Address: No. 368 South Union St., Burlington, Vt. 



HOHANNESS krikorian, 

The son of Kara Krikore, the pastor of the Evan- 
gelical Armenian Church, at Aintab, Turkey, was born 
February 3, 1855, at Aintab. He was fitted for college 
at Central Turkey College, Aintab. He left Amherst in 
1881, and studied theology at the Yale Divinity School, 
from which institution he received the degree of B. D. in 
1883. He then returned to his native land, and has since 
that time been teaching Philosophy and the Evidences of 
Christianity in Central Turkey College, Aintab. Since 
1885 he has held the Goodell Professorship in these sub- 
jects. In addition to his work as a teacher, he preaches 
most of the time in the Evangelical Armenian churches 
of the city. He was married September 5, 1888, to 
Rebecca Aristides (a Greek), daughter of Aristides 
Momjiades, a preacher in the Greek Evangelical Church, 
Brousa, Turkey, and has two children: 

Ephronia Loucia (girl), born August 23, 1889; 

Terouant Movses (boy), born January 20, 1892. 

Address: Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey. 



78 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

WILLIAM H. LEONARD, 

The son of Rev. Hartford P. and Lucy (Chapman) 
Leonard, was born November to, i860, at Manhattan, 
Kansas. He was fitted for college at the Taunton (Mass.) 
High School. He left the class in June, 1882, and the 
following October entered the Boston University Law 
School, from which he graduated in June, 1884, receiving 
the degree of LL. B. He entered upon the practice of 
law in Boston in August, 1884, where he has been ever 
since. He resided at Raynham during 1886-87, at 
Quincy from 1887 to 1891, and since that time has been 
residing at Braintree, going in and out from Boston every 
day. He was married May 5, 1886, to Charlotte A., 
daughter of George T. and Caroline E. Richardson, of 
Taunton, Mass., and has three children: 

Perl Richardson, born April 11, 1887; 
Hartford, born July 23, 1888; 
Curtis Woodbury, born November 22, 1891. 
Address: 25 Equitable Building, Boston, Mass. 



SARKIS LEVONIAN, 

The son of Asadoor and Mennoosh Levone, was born 
November 9, 185 1, at Aintab, Turkey. He was fitted 
for college at the theological seminary in Marash, fifty 
miles north of Aintab. He left Amherst College in 1881 
and went to Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 
to pursue the study of mathematics and civil engineering. 
He finished his course there in 1883, receiving the degree 
of Ph.B. On his return to Turkey he was called to the 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 79 

Central Turkey College at Aintab to teach Mathematics, 
Mineralogy and Geology. He has written a treatise on 
Trigonometry, another on Arithmetic, and a short life of 
Christ, which, in manuscript form, are in use in the college. 
In addition to his college work, he is teacher, on Sunday 
mornings, of a large Sunday-school class, numbering about 
150 members. He was married August 20, 1884, to 
Johanna Wilhelmina Rosalia, daughter of Barsam and 
Catherine Manissadjian, of Amasia, in the old Roman 
Province of Pontus, and has three children: 

Julia Catherine, born July 12, 1885; 

Mari Hargoohi, born August 20, 1888; 

Bysant Asadoor, born December 13, 1890. 

Address : Central Turkey College, Aintab, Turkey. 

FREDERIC BRAINERD MITCHELL, 

The son of Moseley H. and Ellen (Brainerd) Mitchell, 
was born at Bristol, Conn., June 2, i860. He was fitted 
for college at the New Britian (Conn.) High School. After 
leaving Amherst he was principal of the Easthampton 
(Conn.) High School for two years, leaving it to accept a 
similar position at Thompsonville, Conn., where he 
remained for two years. He then entered the Yale Law 
School, where he graduated in 1885, receiving the degree 
of LL. B. He then became principal of the high school 
at Thomaston, Conn., where he remained for four years. 
Since 1889 he has been living at New Britian, Conn. He 
has been engaged in the insurance business for two years, 
in the practice of law for one year, and is at present agent 
for the Hare Railroad Signal (main office, 50 Broadway, 
N. Y.) He was married December 23, 1885, to Harriet 



8o DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Allyn, daughter of John L. Houston, of Thompsonville, 
Conn., and has one child: 

John Houston, born August 29, 1890. 

Address : Hillside Place, New Britian, Conn. 

HARRY ADAMS NORTON, 

The son of Rev. George and M. L. Ferguson (his 
name was changed by legal process when he was five 
years old, from Ferguson to Norton, his grandfather's 
name), was born September 18, i860, in New York City. 
He was fitted for college at the Edgartown (Mass.) High 
School. After leaving Amherst he spent 1880-1881 in 
New York City, 1882-1887 on Cape Cod, 1888-1890 at 
Martha's Vineyard, and has since been residing at Hamil- 
ton, N. Y. During most of the period since he left 
Amherst he has been a railroad telegrapher and in the 
employ of telephone companies. Two years ago he 
entered Colgate Academy at Hamilton to review the 
studies he had dropped. He is now taking a partial 
course of study in Colgate University with the classes of 
'94, '95 and '96, preparatory to entering upon study for 
the ministry. He was married June 15, 1881, to Millie 
Norris, daughter of Capt. Edward B. and Abbey N. 
Bacon, of Worcester, Mass., and has four children: 

Richard Allen, born October 3, 1882; 

Henry Edward Adams, born September 28, 1884; 

James Arthur, born July 27, 1886; 

Edward B., born August 8, 1887; died August 9, 
1888. 

Address: P. O. Box 814, Hamilton, Madison County, 
N. Y., or Edgartown, Mass. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 8 1 

FRANK HOWARD OLIVER, 

The son of Robert E. and Emily F. Oliver, was born 
December 23, i860, at Charlestown, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at the Somerville (Mass.) High School. He 
left Amherst at the close of Freshman year, and in 
October, 1880, became shipping clerk with a firm engaged 
in the wholesale knit goods business, at the same time 
studying shorthand. March i, 1887, he left his position 
and entered the service of the National Express Co., in 
Boston, as a stenographer. March 9, 1888, he began 
work in the same capacity for the United States Express 
Co., No. 175 Devonshire Street, Boston. He left the 
latter company January 26, 1889, and became chief steno- 
grapher for the firm of C. H. Graves & Sons, No. 35 
Hawkins Street, Boston, which position he still holds. 
He is also stenographic reporter for the Everett Free 
Press. His residence up to 1885 was at Somerville, but 
since that time he has been living at Everett. He was 
married March 9, 1887, to Anna Elizabeth, daughter of 
Ephraim and Elizabeth A. Brown, of Shelburne, Nova 
Scotia, and has had two children: 

Robert Nelson, born February 7, 1888; 

Florence May, born April 8, 1889; died August 10, 
1889. 

Address: No. 35 Hawkins St., Boston (office), or 3 
Summit Ave., Everett, Mass. (residence). 

EDWARD STEVENS ORR, 

The son of Samuel K. and Joan (Stevens) Orr, was 
born October 5, 1859, at Amherst, Mass. He was fitted 



82 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

for college at the Amherst High School. He left college 
at the close of Freshman year. Soon after, he went west 
and "worked and starved" for six. months. In October, 
1881, he secured a position as flour buyer for the firm of 
Charles P. Burr & Co., wholesale flour and grain mer- 
chants, of St. Louis. December 27, 1882, he became a 
member of the firm, forming a partnership for three years. 
At the end of this period he decided to go into the mill- 
ing business and became a member of the Wing Flour 
Mill Co., of Charleston, 111., taking one-third of the stock 
and becoming general manager of the business. He still 
continues a member of that firm. He has been Vice- 
President of the William A. Orr Shoe Company, manu- 
facturers of boots and shoes, from 1890 to the present 
time. He has been a director in the Third National Bank 
of St. Louis from January, 1891, to the present time. He 
has been Vice-President of the Williamsville, Greenville 
& Northeastern R. R. since 1893. He was a candidate 
for Mayor of Charleston, III, in 1889. He was married 
June 4, 1889, to Mary Agnes, daughter of William C. and 
Mary (Anderson) Orr, of St. Louis, Mo. 

Address: 616 North 8th St. (office), or 3,223 La- 
fayette Ave,, St. Louis, Mo. (residence). 

ALBERT R. PALMER, 

The son of Dwight W. and Clara Palmer, was born 
August 10, i860, at Amherst, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at DeVeaux College and the Amherst High 
School. He left college at the end of the Sophomore 
year, and in September of the same year (1881) he went 
into his father's store at Amherst as a salesman, which 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 83 

position he occupied until May, 1885, at which time, his 
father being called to the presidency of the Smith Chari- 
ties at Northampton, Mass., he assumed entire charge of 
the merchantile business at Amherst. In October of the 
same year he sold out, and in December entered the em- 
ploy of Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, 111., as salesman 
in their retail carpet department, in which business he has 
continued since that time. He is unmarried. 

Address: Care Marshall Field & Co., State and 
Washington Sts., Chicago, 111. 



FRANCIS W. PERRY 

Cannot be found. No clue to his whereabouts has 
been discovered. 



CLAYTON D. SMITH, 

The son of David and Laura A. Smith, was born at 
Chester, Mass., March 31, 1857. He was fitted for col- 
ege at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. After 
leaving college, in 1882, he remained at home until Sep- 
tember, 1883, when he entered the law office of Edward 
H. Lathrop, of Springfield, Mass. In 1884 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and since then has been practicing law 
in Chester, Mass. He was married October 10, 1888, to 
Edith M., daughter of Austin Rude, of Huntington, 
Mass., and has one child: 

Helen E., born March 31, 1892. 

Address: Chester, Mass. 



84 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

LEVI SMITH, Jr., 

Has not responded. From 1881 to 1888 he was en- 
gaged in silver mining in Nevada. ' From 1884 to 1886 he 
was superintendent of the Hidden Treasure Silver Mine, 
Esmeralda County, Nevada. At the time of his last letter 
(1886) he was unmarried. 

Address: Belleville, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 

JOHN BALDWIN WALKER, 

The son of Rev. Avery S. and Rose B. Walker, was 
born January 16, i860, at Lodi, N. J. He was fitted for 
college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. After leav- 
ing Amherst, he entered Harvard and graduated with the 
class of '84. In the fall of the same year he entered the 
Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 
June, 1887, receiving the degree of M. D. After gradu- 
ation he received an appointment in the surgical service 
of the Boston City Hospital, where he remained for a 
year and a half. He then went abroad and studied in 
Vienna, Paris and London for two years. On his return 
he practiced medicine in Cleveland, O., until March, 1892. 
He is now practicing in New York City. He has written 
a number of professional monographs, and is at present an 
inspector of the board of health, New York City. He is 
unmarried. 

Address: No. 33 East 33d St., New York City. 

JOSEPH WHEELWRIGHT, 

The son of Isaac W. and Adeline A. Wheelwright, was 
born at Byfield, Mass., October 2, i860. He was fitted 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 85 

for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. After 
leaving Amherst he returned to his home Byfield and 
chose an outdoor life in order that he might gain physical 
strength, for lack of which he had been compelled to 
give up his college course. Though not wholly well, he 
has hopes of overcoming the trouble (inherited weakness 
of the nervous system) sufficiently to enable him to 
preach. For the last two years he has been studying 
theology in Andover Theological Seminary. He was 
married January 22, 1884, to Alice R. , daughter of 
George L. and Hannah J. Upton, of Salem, Mass., and 
has one child: 

Grace Adams, born April 3, 1885. 

Address : Andover, or Byfield, Mass. 



GURDON WALTER WILLIAMS, 

The son of Henry Warren and Lucy (Stone) Williams, 
was born December 3, 1859, at Pittsburg, Pa. He left 
Amherst in the spring of '81, and in the fall entered the 
Boston (Mass.) University Law School, where he remained 
one year, returning at the close of the year to Pittsburg, 
Pa. There he became a student of law in the office of his 
brother, N. S. Williams, until January, 1885, when he was 
admitted to the Allegheny County Bar, and shortly after 
formed a legal partnership with his brother under the firm 
name of N. S. & G. W. Williams. He is unmarried. 

Address: No. 81 Diamond St. Pittsburg, Allegheny 
County, Pa. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE 87 



OBITUARY RECORD 



GRADUATES 



George P. Ellison, born April 6, 1859, at East Creek, 
Herkimer County, N. Y. ; died May 7, 1888, atUtica, 
N. Y. 

Marcus Marvin Mason, born October 7, 1861, at Win- 
chendon, Mass. ; died July 22, 1892, at Niagara 
Falls, N. Y. 

Scott Smith Silliman, born January 15, 1855, at Stam- 
ford, N. Y. ; died May 29, 1884, at Kingston, N. Y. 

NON GRADUATES 

Walter Pierce Hendrickson, born October 7, 1861, at 
New Bedford, Mass. ; died November 13, 1892, at 
Pasadena, Cal. 

Hugh McKee Jones, died October 2, 1881, at Harrods- 
burg, Kentucky. 

Harry Irving Reed, born June 20, i860, at East Wey- 
mouth, Mass. ; died November 29, 1883, at East 
Weymouth, Mass. 



88 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 



OBITUARY NOTICES 



WALTER P. HENDRICKSON, 

The son of Charles Edward and Harriett Searle 
(Pierce) Hendrickson, was born October 7, 1861, at New 
Bedford, Mass. He lived up to the time of entering Am- 
herst College in his native place. After leaving Amherst 
he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
York City, but his health would not permit him to gradu- 
ate. He went in search of health, first to Tennessee, 
then to Florida, and finally settled in Demorest, Georgia. 
While in the last named place he acted as Treasurer of 
the Demorest Mining and Improvement Co. The change 
of climate was of no permanent benefit, and in September, 
1882, he left Georgia for Pittsfield, Mass., hoping that 
the change of air would benefit him, but it did not, and 
upon the advice of his physicians he decided to go Cali- 
fornia. The fatigue of travelling proved too severe for 
him ; he sank rapidly and died at Pasadena, November 
13, 1892, about two weeks after his arrival in California, 
from a complication of heart and lung troubles. He was 
married January 14, 1888, to Jennie Topping Kirk, of 
New York City. The Evening Standard^ of New Bedford, 
Mass., in an obituary, published November 15, 1892, 



*0f those deceased since last Class Book. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 89 

spoke of Mr. Hendrickson as "a man whom everyone 
liked and respected. He was very reticent in speech, a 
splendid scholar, invariably pleasant, and peculiarly 
adapted to the profession he had chosen." 

MARCUS MARVIN MASON, 

The son of Orlando and Calista S. Mason, was born 
October 7, 1861, at Winchendon, Mass. He was fitted 
for college at Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass. In 
the fall of 'S^ he entered into business with his father at 
Winchendon, Mass. In April, 1884, he removed his 
residence to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was engaged 
in numerous stock-growing interests, being connected 
with the Snow Cattle Co., the Converse Cattle Co., the 
Wyoming Land & Live Stock Co., and the Wyoming Meat 
Co., being Secretary and Manager of all the companies, 
December, 1892, he removed his residence to Boston, 
Mass., where he became Cashier of the Investment Trust 
Co. of America. He was married November 12, 1885, to 
Edyth Haywood, daughter of Joseph and Christine (Beach) 
Isham, of New York City. 

He left his home July 15, 1892, with a few friends for 
a trip to Kansas, in the interests of the Investment Com- 
pany. On their way home they stopped at Niagara Falls 
(July 22), and, after spending several hours in viewing the 
various points of interest, Marcus, with one friend, de- 
cided upon a visit to the Cave of the Winds. After mak- 
ing the usual preparations they started around the outside 
course and to the cave. The guide helped Marcus' friend 
down a short flight of stone steps, and was standing side- 
ways on them ready to give his hand to Marcus, when the 



90 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

latter jumped, and, landing on the wet rock, he slipped, 
and fell into the water. Without an instant's delay the 
guide jumped in after him, but, when the latter came to the 
surface, he saw Marcus going under the falls just beyond 
his reach. The body was recovered and brought to his 
father's home at Winchendon July 30. The funeral was 
held in the afternoon of the same day, the interment be- 
ing at Riverside Cemetery in Winchendon. The Win- 
chendon Courier^ in speaking of his death, says: "The 
officers of the company with which he was connected speak 
in the highest terms of his character and ability, his in- 
tegrity being without a flaw, and his whole nature ringing 
clear and of sterling quality. " In a later issue it said: 
** No mere words can express the sentiments of regret felt 
by the community for the sudden cutting off of this young 
life, so full of promise and hope, and an unexampled 
degree of sympathy is expressed for the family." [See 
also Letters.] 



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THE NURSERY 



Clinton J. Backus, Jr. 
David Hiram Backus. 
Margaret Bancroft. 
Richard Bancroft. 
Harold E. Bardwell. 
Robert Wetherbee Boy den. 
Alice Gorden Boyden. 
^Theodore Lynn Byington. 
Solomon Russell Chesley. 

* Israel Folsom Chesley, Jr. 
Franklin Russell Chesley. 
Malcolm Chesley. 
Edward Irving Comins. 
Edith Frances Cotton. 
Caroline Cushman. 

* Dorothy Cushman. 
Harold Pericles Derebey. 
Franklin Pease Derebey. 
Ruth Elizabeth Dyer. 
Samuel Ballantine Fairbank. 
Allan Melvin Fairbank. 
Ruth Elizabeth Fairbank. 
Margaret Fowler. 

Helen Fowler. 
Olive Louise French, 

[child of E. W. F.l 



George Marshall French, 

[child of E. W. F.] 

Jonathan Parsons Greanleaf. 
Raymond Noyes Hamilton. 
Kenneth Charles Hamilton. 
Florence Preston Houghton, 
Helene Seymour Houghton. 
Elizabeth Lincoln Hyde. 
Rachel Hubbard Kendall. 
Elizabeth Ramsdell Kingman. 
Malcolm Fizer McFarland. 
Mervin Mason Manning. 
Edward Henry Marsh. 
Josephine Olive Morse. 
Carl Gantley Morse. 
Henry Clark Nash, 3d, 

[son of H. C. N., Jr.] 

■^Raymond Owen Nash, 

[son of H. C. N., Jr.] 

Willard Owen Nash, 

[son of H. C. N., Jr.] 

Florence Cozad Newell. 
Alan Gardner Orr. 
Paul Owen. 
Esther Parsons. 
Charles Edwards Parsons. 



92 



DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 



Augusta Patton. 
Grace Lavinia Pennock. 
Louise Ellsworth Rounds. 
Charles Knapp Rounds. 
Charles Belcher Rugg, 

[son of G. R.] 

Charles Parks Rugg, 

[son of A. p. R.] 

Albert Goodnough Simonds. 
William Adams Simonds. 
Alice Frances Simonds. 
Elizabeth Sarah Simonds. 
Ethelwin C. Sprout, 
Vernette Maydole Stebbins. 
Miner Worthington Tuttle. 
Ruth Emery Washburn. 
Almy D wight Washburn. 
Ralph Seelye Washburn. 
Rachel Gray Whitcomb. 
Ludella Miriam Whittlesey. 
William C. Atwater, Jr. 
Robert Cousins Bardwell. 
Richard Woleben Bardwell. 
Edith Jewett. 
*Edward Jewett. 
Helen Jewett. 
Gurdon Blodgett Jones. 

♦Deceased. 



Alister Ross Jones. 

Alden Bliss Jones. 

Pauline Fales Jones. 

Barbara Kirby. 

Edward Carlotta Kitchin. 

Esmond Furbeck Kitchin. 

Howard William Kitchin. 

Bernard Lee Kitchin. 

Ephronia Loucia Krikorian. 

Tehouant Movses Krikorian. 

Perl Richardson Leonard. 

Hartford Leonard. 

Curtes Woodbury Leonard. 

Julia Catherine Levonian. 

Mari Hargoohi Levonian. 

By rant Asadoor Levonian. 

John Houston Mitchell. 

Richard Allen Norton. 

Henry E. A. Norton. 

James Arthur Norton. 
* Edward B. Norton. 

Robert Nelson Oliver. 
^Florence May Oliver. 

Helen E. Smith, 

[daughter of C. D. S.] 

Grace Adams Wheelwright. 



^ 



THE DECENNIAL 





DECENNIAL REUNION 

SATURDAY, June 24, the **boys" began to assemble. 
Headquarters were opened at Hitchcock Hall (the 
old Boltwood House), the front room on the first 
floor having been secured. Numerous memorabilia were 
scattered about on the tables and arranged on the walls 
by '* Harry," the decorative artist of the class. Among 
these were old Olios and Class Books, and ** Pard's " gym. 
shirt and gym. sash. On the mantel of the room were ar- 
ranged a large number of photographs of the wives and 
children of members of the class. A register was pro- 
vided at a desk in the corner of the room and the following 
signed and received the class button: Bardwell, Boyden, 



g6 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

Bridgman, Byington, Callahan, Comstock, Cotton, Cush- 
man. Dyer, Fairbank, Fitts, Foster, Fowler, Griffin, Hallett, 
Hamlin, Hatch, Houghton, Howland, Johnson, Kingman, 
Lew, McFarland, Marsh, H. C. Nash, Jr., W. K. Nash, 
Nichols, Noyes, Wm. Orr, Jr., E. S. Orr, Parsons, Patton, 
Rae, Rugg, Saben, Semple, H. A. Smith, Sprout, Stebbins, 
C. A. Tuttle, Walker, Whitaker, Whitcomb, Whittlesey, 
(44), Of these, one (Fairbank) came from India, having 
arranged his trip with special reference to the Reunion ; 
and six, (Kingman, Nichols, Whittlesey, E. S. Orr, 
Fowler, Parsons) from beyond the Mississippi River. Mc- 
Farland made the trip from Illinois. Of the rest, 22 were 
from New England, 12 from New York State, (9 of the 12 
being from New York City), and 2 from New Jersey. The 
class spirit grew stronger and stronger with each new ar- 
rival, and at last the whole town of Amherst was fully 
aware that the class had arrived in larger numbers than 
any of its predecessors had been able to muster at a 
Decennial Reunion. '83 broke the previous record. '80 
men hoped to keep it at 35, but were completely buried 
under '83's majority of nine. Much of the credit of this 
fine showing and of the enthusiasm of the Reunion, was 
due to the energy and interest of Bridgman and Patton, 
the Committee of Arrangements. 

On Monday the class banner, a purple '83 on a white 
ground, arrived from New York and was hung in front of 
the class headquarters. Placards announcing that "The 
'83 Men are at Hitchcock Hall," were printed and tacked 
in conspicuous places about town. Most of Monday and 
Tuesday morning were spent in reminiscing. The head- 
quarters were the centre of the renewing of many friend- 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 97 

ships. On the afternoon of Tuesday the class enjoyed a 
very pleasant reception at the house of Professor and Mrs. 
Todd, who were charming hosts. Four ''wives "were 
present, Mrs. Fitts, Mrs. Whitcomb, Mrs. Fairbank and 
Mrs. Parsons, and one of the class children, Esther Par- 
sons, the only representative of the ninety-seven that 
have gladdened the homes of '83 men. Mrs. Comstock 
was in town during part of the week, though not at the 
reception. 

At half-past eight on Tuesday evening the class sat 
down at the Reunion Banquet, served by Dooling of Bos- 
ton, in the southwest room on the ground floor of Walker 
Hall. The room was decorated with memorabilia, and 
the pictures that had adorned the mantel of the head- 
quarters were arranged on the black-boards. The banquet 
was interspersed with singing, the words of many of the old 
songs having been printed and distributed. At the close 
of the banquet President Boyden called the class to order 
and made an informal speech, welcoming the boys back. 
The report of the Treasurer was then read. 

The class voted to pay $3.00 apiece for the dinner, 
instead of $2.50, in order to have a little money to put 
into the class treasury. The Secretary was instructed to 
send a copy of the new Class Book, when issued, free of 
cost, to every member of the class, graduate and non- 
graduate. Boyden was then re-elected President, and 
Parsons Secretary and Treasurer. The office of Assistant 
Secretary and Treasurer was created, and William Orr, 
Jr., was elected to fill it. Bridgman and Patton were 
elected to act with the President (ex-officio) as Ex- 
ecutive Committee. Bridgman was appointed to repre- 



98 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

sent the class at the Alumni Dinner. President Boyden 
then turned the class over to Patton, who acted as 
toast master. The Secretary made a general report 
and read a number of telegrams and letters from ab- 
sent members, which were supplemented by other letters 
read by Fitts. Kingman spoke a few words in memory 
of Marcus Mason and a silent toast was drunk. It was 
voted that a copy of Kingman's words be included in 
the Class Book, and that a suitable expression of the feel- 
ing of the class be sent to Mason's mother and widow. 
Kingman, McFarland and Orr were appointed a committee 
for this purpose. The degree of M. K. (Master of Kids) 
was bestowed upon Fairbank, who responded suitably in 
receiving the honor. Noyes read a poem, which was 
ordered printed in the book. Stebbins, Sprout, Callahan, 
Johnson, Williston Walker, E. S. Orr and Bridgman fol- 
lowed with informal speeches, and letters were read from 
Ex-President Seelye and *' Doc." The question of a class 
memorial, to be presented to the college in token of the 
loyal interest of '8^ in its welfare, was then discussed. It 
was voted that a committee be appointed to raise a fund 
for this purpose from present and absent members; that, 
the committee submit to the class plans for the disposal 
of the money, and solicit the votes of the class as to 
which plan shall be adopted. Noyes, W. Walker and W. 
Orr, Jr., were appointed such committee. The following 
resolutions were then adopted: 

The class of ^S^, assembled at its Decennial Reunion, 
44 strong, desires to place on record by its words, as well 
as by the large return of its members, its unswerving loy- 
alty to Amherst College and earnest interest in her welfare ; 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 99 

We congratulate President Gates and all who share 
with him the direct responsibility for the conduct of the 
college on the large number of students now in attend- 
ance and the constantly increasing opportunities offered 
by the college; 

We rejoice with Professor Harris and the other scien- 
tific professors that the much needed and long promised 
laboratories are at last a certainty and that the walls are 
rising before our eyes ; 

The athletic victories of the year are an honor to the 
students and to those who by gifts and service have done 
so much to make Amherst's system the golden means of 
physical training and athletic sports. Long may Dr. 
Hitchcock reign in the Amherst Gym ; 

To Professor and Mrs. Todd we extend our hearty 
thanks for the delightful hospitality of their home and we 
regret more than ever that our departure from Amherst 
in 1883 followed so closely their coming to the college; 

It is our sincere hope that Professor Tyler may be 
spared long to inspire and guide the spirit of Amherst 
College, even though he seeks his well earned rest, and 
that his last days may be his best days ; 

We desire to express our disappointment at not see- 
ing the face of our beloved Ex-President Seeyle at the 
public ceremonies. To him we send our filial greetings, 
rejoicing in the assurance that his deep and tender interest 
in our welfare remains until this day and that his bene- 
diction rests upon us, even though ten years have rolled 
by since we listened to his farewell words to us. 

After the adoption of the resolutions, the meeting 
adjourned. 



lOO DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

The following day the class met at Hitchcock Hall, 
after the Commencement Exercises, and marched with its 
banner at its head to the Pratt Gym. During the week 
the two following "yells" had been evolved, known 
respectively as the Alumni Yell and the Class Yell : 

ALUMNI YELL. 

" Who are we ? Who are we ? 
We are Amherst, Eighty-three. 
Hear us shout! Hear us shout!! 
We have been just ten years out. 

Eighty-three." 

CLASS YELL. 

*' Hobble-gobble, razzle-dazzle, sist-boom-ba, 
Amherst College, Eighty-three, Rah! Rah!! Rah!!!" 

These were used very effectively before and during 
the Alumni dinner. Bridgman represented the class ably 
and everything passed off very pleasantly. After the 
dinner good-byes were said and most of the class left 
before night. The great enthusiasm which prevailed can 
be dimly understood by a perusal of the following opin- 
ions which have been received by the Secretary since the 
Reunion. 

Delightfully cordial, full of good fellowship, and refreshing. 

— Darwin L. Bardwell. 

A grand success, well-planned, large and enthusiastic. 

— Wallace C. Boyden. 

The best thing that '83 ever did together. 

— H. A. Bridgman. 

" Best time I ever had in my life," — in the words of the immortal 
Bard— well, C. M. 

—By. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. lOI 

Worthy of a class noted in the recent history of Amherst for its large 
numbers, its wise conservatism, its honest and able men, and its devotion 
to the college. 

— J. A. Callahan. 

An unqualified success. 

— T. L. COMSTOCK. 

Since the time when as a child I was " pleased with a rattle, tickled 
with a straw," I have not had such a good time. 

— CUSHMAN. 

It was by me more keenly enjoyed than any other similar meeting of 
the class. 

— A. J. Dyer. 

A decided success. 

— Henry Fairbank. 

I had a grand time and would not have missed it for anything. 

' — Frank H. Fitts. 

A " roaring success." 

— Geo. B. Foster. 

Well worth the trip of 1,400 or 1,500 miles I made to attend it. 

—Edwin Fowler. 

Greatly to the credit of '8}. 

— tMartin L. Griffin. 

A complete success. 

— F. W. Hamlin. 

The greatest success the class ever achieved. 

— D. P. Hatch. 

To me a matter of infinite pleasure and benefit. 

— H. Seymour Houghton. 

Much more successful in size and enthusiasm than I had anticipated. 

— D. B. Howland. 

It was a successful reunion. 

— ^J. M. Johnson. 



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The most successful gathering '83 ever had and well worth a 3,000 
mile journey every year. 

— J. R. KiNGMAK. 

A decided success. — W. B. Lew. 

Extremely enjoyable. — C. F. McFarland. 

The jolliest class meeting and the most enthusiastic one '83 ever had. 

— F. B. Marsh. 

Highly successful in every way. 

—"Nick." 

Like taking an excursion into another world, or like a renewal of 
perpetual youth, to abandon business and be present at the Reunion. 

— A. D. NoYES. 

It makes me tremble to think how near I came to missing the whole 
thing. 

— Cornelius H. Patton. 

A magnificent success. — Rae. 

1 had a first-rate good time. 

— Arthur P. Rugg. 

A most pleasant surprise in every way. They will be happiest and 
youngest who return oftenest. — Oliver C. Semple. 

Those who were unable to be there are to be congratulated in that 
they do not know how much they lost. — H. A. Smith. 

The Decennial having broken the record and mended a multitude of 

friendships, deserves to be repeated many times. 

— H. D. Stebbins. 

A delightful renewal of college fellowships, and a magnificent exhibi- 
tion of the loyalty of '83 to the class and to the college. 

— WiLLisTON Walker. 

A most successful affair in every way. — E. j. Whitaker. 

A grand time! — C. T. C. Whitcomb. 

A decided success and worthy of the Class of '83. 

— C. T. Whittlesey. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE I03 

POEMS. 

Trepared to he read at the T>ecennial T{eunion. 



THE BOYS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 

BY WALTER T. FIELD. 

The boys are coming in again 

On the returning tide ; 
The lessons of ten years are learned, 

The books are flung aside. 
The lessons of the year are tough, — 

Far tougher than of old, 
But few of us have " flunked " outright 

And some have " rushed it cold." 

Time works strange transformations here,- 

Nick's tender cheek is scared, 
And Fairbank has a boy or two. 

And Bridgey has a beard. 
Bridgey writes religious essays now 

With grace almost the same 
As when he wrote light articles 

About "The Base-ball Game." 

Sandy behind his spectacles 

Thinks Homer was a myth, 
And quotes you stocks as fluently 

As he could grind O. Smith. 
Pat's lips drop nectared eloquence, — 

His people never saw 
The nectar he absorbed at Frank's 

So deftly through a straw. 



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Pard in the mountains of the west 

Descants with wondrous lore 
Of "nuncle" and "Poor Tom's a cold" 

Just as he did of yore. 
Dick Hamilton, the reaper king — 

A child on either knee — 
Tells how he wooed the Holyoke girls 

'Way back in Eighty-three. 

Bill Walker and Rush Rhees both shove 

The scholar's learned quill, 
Sprout's legal lore runs street car lines, 

Zack Stuart owns a mill. 
Joe, out in Minneapolis, 

Has in the law a place 
Far more exalted than he held 

In Penny's table-race. 

But as I think of other days 

The years roll back their scroll ; 
1 see the boys in gym. again 

I hear Doc call the roll. 
When "Aborn, Adams," and the rest 

Slid dumb bells on the floor 
And sang they wanted "tombstones at 

Their head and feet " galore. 
I hear them asking Monty 

If he ever went to war. 

I hear just why the Holtz machine 

Failed to perform quite well, 
I hear the cry of "Wet the ropes ! " 

And learn about 'Fes Snell. 
John sweetly smokes his cigarette, 

Tom on his banjo plays. 
And Cotton rings the chimes again 

As in the good old days. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. 105 

Those days hold tender memories 

And as once more we meet 
To gaily bless old Amherst's name 

And walk her leaf-arched street, 
Whatever cares the future brings 

The past, secure from ill, 
With memories of those long gone days 

Shall cheer and bless us still. 



A DECENNIAL POEM. 
Read hy request and against his will, 

BY ALEXANDER D. NOYES. 

Poets are born, not made ; for which please look 
In the first pages of the copy-book. 
Where may be found all maxims of antiquity 
Best suited to the use of young iniquity. 
Poets are born — observe, that this condition 
Opens the field to everyone's ambition. 
The claim is any mortal being's, if he get 
A chance to show his simple birth certificate. 
Whoever, therefore, thinks my claim a libel 
Will please examine the parental Bible. 

As for a record, all that serves for me 
Is the mild effort dated '83, 
Read, in the graduate's effusive way, 
To audiences seized and forced to stay — 
These, like the private readings to one's wife. 
Are the bright chances of a poet's life. 
Avoid the clutch of publishing-house sharpers 
And freezing notes from Centurys and Harpers. 
Never, I think, was human being prouder 
Than I to hear the back-rows crying " Louder ! " 
To see the front row packed with fond relations. 
Professors smiling from their august stations ; 
Smiling, because a lack of smiles was worse, 
Since personalities inspired the verse. 



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Ten years of rubbing up with life's realities, 

Have dulled the edge of all such personalities. 

As for the class, only time's changes find 

Thorough material for an old-time grind. 

Who would have thought, in harmony with nature, 

Of Sprout haranguing Boston's legislature ? 

That Bridgman's pointed squibs were preparation 

To edit a religious publication ? 

That Johnson, whose position, to be frank, 

In mathematics, was of second rank, 

Would audit figures in a city bank ? 

That mischief-leading Patton had been planned 

To take the Jersey church-goers in hand? 

That Cushman's Grove Oration was not far 

From grave appeals within the New York bar; 

Or Hamlin's sporting qualities designed 

For work in the complaints of womankind ? 

Or Charley Tuttle's powers a reliance 

To teach the college economic science ? 

That Morse, Delmonico of College Hill, 

Would yield his talents to the cowboys' will ? 

That Pennock, round whom played — terrific vision ! — 

The lightning of the chemistry division, 

Would for himself, without the need of proxy, 

Launch thunderbolts at Eastern orthodoxy ? > 

That Willie Walker, once so strict in duty, 

Would have decamped with Amherst's leading beauty ? 

All of our college memories retain 
A charm for which to-day we look in vain ; 
To later life it cannot come again. 
Around those days a tiny world had grown. 
With laws and institutions all its own. 
Little with after-life had we in common ; 
The grind of labor, the pursuit of Mammon, 
The hand of civil justice — their relation 
Was but remote to us ; our situation 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. I07 

Exclusive as the ancient Chinese nation. 

We made no treaties, asked no reciprocity — 

And merely viewed with careless curiosity 

A stray alumnus — had no wish to learn 

Of Life's real struggles and that country stern 

From whose bourne travelers sometimes would return. 

We smiled at their successes, and believed 

Them small compared with what ourselves achieved ; 

Or deigned at times invite their admiration 

By offering, from our own exalted station. 

Practical counsel in the class oration. 

We had our hero-worship, our ambitions. 
Fixed by the undergraduates' traditions. 
Being Americans, our politicians 
Could pull the wires in all conceived directions, 
And hold the votes at heated class elections. 
Pure politics for once — in those rare days 
There was no premium on Hills or Quays. 

We had our own statistics; quite apart 
From anything in R. P. Porter's chart. 
We tested our prehensile powers, pilosity 
And strength of lung — I trust that our verbosity. 
Which was a striking feature, was among 
The facts computed from our depth of lung. 
What lessons, in these days of census fables, 
Are taught by those anthropometric tables ! 

We had our code of morals; somewhat ruder 
Than those prescribed by Socrates or Buddha. 
Cribbing was first of crimes; and yet, of course. 
Not worse than the translating with a '' horse." 
Thieving was wrong; yet much would mitigate 
Destruction of a tutor's wooden gate. 
Nor could all moral admonitions dim 
The joy of stealing dumb-bells from the " Gym." 



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We worshipped, not to ease a burdened soul, 
But to keep even on the prayer-bill roll, 
And went perforce grumbling to Sunday church, 
Lest our one-tenth of "cuts " be left in lurch, 
For everybody knew that Amherst scholars 
Paid for one purpose their one hundred dollars; 
Their first concern in college, all avowed, 
Was to take every " cut " the law allowed. 

Herein the charm of college life was shown; 

The hopes, achievements, triumphs were our own; 

What modern hero's glory would not pale 

Before the nine that won the game from Yale ? 

What editor so boldly dictatorial 

As he who wrote a " Student " editorial ? 

What pride in later life could higher rise 

Than his who wins the Hyde or Kellogg prize ? 

What fame will not far sooner sink and pass, 

That that which wreathes the leader of the class ? 

A Classday poet used to think it prudent 
To fill six pages of the " Amherst Student." 
His Pegasus could take a ten-mile canter 
Without rebuke; but tempora mutantur. 
If only this, the town of our adoption, 
Had given something up to local option, 
I might in closing bid you drink with me 
Success and future health to '83. 



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CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. I09 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



1 883- 1 888. 

RECEIPTS. 

From former treasurer, A. F, Cushman, $47 42 

Sale of Records (1883-86) 103 @ 50c., - - - - 51 50 

Sale of Records (i886-'88) 10 @ 50c., 500 

Subscriptions, ....._.-. 73 00 

$176 92 
DISBURSEMENTS. 

Printing, (including Class Books, i883-'86, i886-'88) - -$14510 

Postage, 25 71 

Travelling Expenses, -_.-___-2 69 
Express, .-.------. 2 40 

Telegrams, - - - - - - -- - - 126 

Stationery and blank books, - - - - - - 125 

Fee, 1 888 breakfast, 100 

$179 41 
Balance due treasurer, ------- 2 49 

EDIVARD S. PARSONS, 

Treasurer. 



no DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

1 888- 1 893. 

RECEIPTS. 

Subscriptions, - - - - - - - - -$271 00 

Banquet tickets, 43 @ $3.00, 12900 

$400 00 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Deficit, 1888, $249 

Printing, ----- 261 84 

Postage, 22 43 

Stationery, ---------- 102 

Clerical Service, - - - - - - - - -12 80 

Flag and staff, --------- 13 25 

Banquet, - - - - - - - - - -100 00 

Hitchcock Hall Headquarters, - - - - - - 1000 

Letter file, ---------- 50 

Carpenter, ---------- 50 

Travelling Expenses, -------- i 80 

$426 6^ 
Deficit, --------- 26 63 

EDIVARD S. PARSONS, 

Treasurer. 



LETTERS 

READ AT THE BANQUET. 

Amherst, May lo, 1893. 

My Dear Friend — I thank you for the opportunity 

to send my love and greetings to the class of '83, whose 

every memory gives me pleasure. 

Very truly yours, 

Julius H. Seelye. 
Prof. E. S. Parsons. 

**Mr. Gladstone has had a great career, but the one 
all-important remark about him now is that he is 83. 
The whole English public has taken up the refrain that he 
is 83. * He is Premier and S^.' *He is the Grand Old 
Man and is 83.' *He made a great speech and is S$.* 

* His Home Rule bill is an amazing scheme and he is 83.' 

* He is as sprightly as ever and 83.' * He reads vo- 
raciously and is S^.^ In fact, the great man's fame just 
now rests on his being 83. The only misgiving that his 
countrymen feel about it is that he may become 84, and 
then he would no longer be 8$." 

Hurrah for '83 ! 

H. B. Newell. 

received since reunion in acknowledgment of de- 
cennial resolutions. 

Amherst, July 15, 1893. 
My Dear Mr. Parsons — Most heartily do I thank 
you, and through you the class of '83, for the love, con- 



112 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

fidence and good wishes so kindly expressed in the reso- 
lution which you have transmitted to me. That all the 
members of the class may long live to honor and bless the 
beloved college which is the mother of us all is the grate- 
ful and fervent prayer of your old Professor, 

W. S. Tyler. 

Amherst College, July 15, 1893. 
My Dear Parsons — It is one of the pleasant things 
as you look ** towards sunset" that the children and 
young folks say encouraging and pleasant things to you. 
Such is my case just now, and the note with the ac- 
companiment in it is put away into the volume of my 
memorabilia of my experiences in connection with the 
Alma Mater. 

It is a great comfort and pleasure to receive this 
epistle from you and the class of 'S$. 

Most cordially, 

E. Hitchcock. 

COPY OF letter sent TO THE WIDOW OF MARCUS 

MARVIN MASON. 

(A similar letter was sent to his tuother.) 

Dear Mrs. Mason — The Decennial Reunion of the 
Class of Eighty-three of Amherst College, of which your 
husband, Marcus Marvin Mason, was a member, was held 
at Amherst during the week beginning Sunday, July 25, 
1893. It was one of unusual attendance and enthusiasm, 
and forty-four of the men passed the hours in kindly 
greetings and pleasant reminiscence. Of the missing 
ones no one was oftener or more feelingly called to mind 
than your husband. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-THREE. II3 

At the class supper on Tuesday evening he was 
frequently mentioned, and it was the desire of the class 
that we should relate to you the events of the evening so 
far as they might be thought to be of interest to you. 

After dinner the chairman of the evening, Rev. 
Cornelius H. Patton, of Westfield, N. J., called upon 
Mr. Kingman to say a few words in memory of our friend. 
The latter responded by giving a brief account of the sad 
accident by which Mr. Mason lost his life, and then con- 
tinued substantially as follows: 

" It is a sad and yet a pleasant duty to give a word 
of tribute to the memory of our friend Marcus Marvin 
Mason; sad because of the thought that he can be no 
more with us; pleasant, because it is always pleasant to 
speak of those we love; pleasant, too, because of the 
memories which cluster about his name. We loved 
Marcus for the manliness which characterized him. We 
admired his good judgment, his thorough-going common 
sense. We enjoyed him for his good fellowship. We 
appreciated his consideration and thoughtfulness for 
others, his true gentlemanliness. 

The nine years which had passed since we separated 
had been years of growth and development for him, years 
of added responsibility, and increasing usefulness. His 
many associates in Cheyenne, and in Boston, speak of 
him in the highest terms and add their tribute to the one 
which silently goes out from our own hearts. 

But it would be far from his desire that I should 
enter into eulogy of him, and farther still that his sad 
death should cast a shadow upon our gathering to-night. 
This would have been an occasion of joy to him, and he 



114 DECENNIAL RECORD OF THE 

would have it one of joy for us. By making our reunion 
to-night a joyous one, I believe we shall honor him 
most." 

At the suggestion of the chairman, the class then 
drank in silence to the memory of Marcus Marvin Mason. 
Later in the evening Mr. W. B. Sprout, of Boston, gave 
an account of a meeting and dinner at the Old Boston 
Tavern, at which were present Mr. Mason, Mr. Chas. W. 
Hamilton, of Milwaukee, and himself, occurring only a few 
days before the former started on his Western trip, and 
which was spoken of as probably the last distinctively 
Amherst Reunion which he attended. Following Mr. 
Sprout, the chairman spoke briefly of a letter received by 
him from Mr. Mason some years after graduation, in 
which Mr. Mason asked his forgiveness for some things 
long since forgotten by Mr. Patton, which had happened 
while they were in college. The chairman commented on 
the high sense of honor and noble development of charac- 
ter which the letter indicated. At the suggestion of Mr. 
McFarland the class then requested us, as already stated, 
to convey to you the foregoing account, and to express 
for those who knew your husband, only as college men 
can know each other, their sympathy in a sorrow which 
has much of consolation in the memory of him for whom 
we grieve, and in the life which he lived. 
Very sincerily yours, 

C. F. McFarland, 

E. S. Orr, 

J. R. Kingman, 

For the Class of 'S^. 
To Mrs. Edith I. Mason. 



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